January 2017
Elon Musk and Mars - looking for a snowball effect
... steamships which carried them were the product of 400 years of maritime development since the earliest transatlantic voyages. Musk’s ambitions are immense - yet at the same time his approach to them is disarmingly modest Musk’s proposed...
January 2017
Blueprint for NASA’s journey to Mars
... Modules provide sufficient partitionable habitable volume to support Crew well-being and safety for the long voyage home. In a nominal mission re-entry, the crew is divided into two groups of three along with containers of samples...
June 2017
Spaceplane rationale - a new way of thinking
...-and-a-half times round the world non-stop. The present record, held by the Virgin Galactic Voyager, is just once. To fly one-and-a-half times around the world without in-flight refuelling would need...
October 2017
Cassini observations open up Saturn’s atmosphere
... northernmost eastward jet at 78 degrees N latitude is the site of another peculiar, long-lived feature that was seen by Voyager in 1981, Hubble in the 1990s, and was rediscovered by Cassini in 2006. The jet stream takes on a sinusoidal appearance...
October 2017
Third quarter phenomenon - the psychology of time in space
... upon psychological responses should be given due consideration. Historic accounts of early expeditions to the Antarctic continent, where voyages could span multiple years without a clearly defined end-point, could provide useful case studies for...
November 2017
Preserving Apollo’s lunar legacy
... of almost all humankind. And all speak fervently of peace. On 16 July 1969 a Saturn V rocket lifted off on a historic voyage and four days later millions of people watched as the first human footprints were set on the Moon...
