June 2019
Asgardia’s parliament – a year of progress
... barbequed by the Sun. By contrast, one year on, Asgardia does not regard Christopher Columbus, the Wright Brothers, Yuri Gagarin or Neil Armstrong as actors in an odyssey which ended around 1972. We think that the narrative in which they starred...
July 2019
Next steps in human space exploration
... Space Academy. Anu Ojha Fifty-eight years ago the Soviet Union pioneered human spaceflight with Yuri Gagarin’s mission - what is Russia focusing on now? Dimitry Loskutov In short, the International Space Station (ISS). In 2020 we’ll be launching...
July 2019
Lessons from our first race to the Moon
... years with one historic space first after another, including the first man to orbit the Earth, Yuri Gagarin, in April 1961. The impressive list of achievements hid a much longer list of failures and sleights of hand. In 1958...
July 2019
Who owns outer space?
... Moon, journeys between planets and untold riches. It could also be said that we were impossibly idealistic when Yuri Gagarin orbited the Earth and Neil Armstrong took his famous steps. So why should we not reach higher...
April 2020
Is space poised to take another giant leap?
... winning feature documentary ‘In the Shadow of the Moon’, produced and directed the hit YouTube documentary recreation of Yuri Gagarin’s pioneering space flight ‘First Orbit’, and wrote the best-selling Haynes owner’s workshop manual on Apollo...
June 2020
Astrovan II - your ride to space is here
... are a superstitious lot: while Russian cosmonauts like to urinate on the tyres of their transfer vehicles (in honour of Yuri Gagarin’s apocryphal habit), American astronauts prefer to eat a hearty steak-and-egg breakfast, a tradition that began with...
