October 2024
Space industry trajectory under the spotlight of cultural anthropology
...my LinkedIn network. If my anthropological fieldwork taught me anything, it was that arguing against human space exploration would alienate me from the space industry. But we have to make tough decisions as adults, don’t we? We have to choose to tell...
November 2025
Searching for life beyond Earth
... to explore. How do you balance scientific caution with public enthusiasm when it comes to potential discoveries of alien life? Striking a balance between caution and enthusiasm is essential and it’s important to acknowledge that reported discoveries...
April 2026
Exploring Mars – the key issues
... or provenance. It is too easy to focus on the difficulties and hardships faced by those living day-to-day in a profoundly alien environment, as many doubters have. On Mars, that includes a daunting list: gravity 38 percent of Earth’s; air pressure...
October 2026
Who will build humanity’s future in space?
... vs Skillset Future space settlers will have to learn to inhabit their own inner world long before reaching an alien one, a form of mental self-sufficiency that could become just as valuable as performing flawless EVAs. Borrowing human...
October 2026
After the applause What Artemis II really means
..., there is a tried-and-tested way to introduce lay audiences to the challenge and excitement of conducting a mission in an alien environment. In the UK, for Apollo, we were lucky to benefit from the guidance of the BBC’s James Burke, a journalist...
13 March 2015
Ceres breakthrough: NASA's Dawn is first probe to visit a dwarf planet
... heat even faster, and we might have this particular temperature on the surface. [6 Most Likely Places for Alien Life in the Solar System] So we may be able to make some measurements that give us an indication indirectly of the various...
