March 2022
What space taught me about water
... in space. She is co-founder of the Space for Art Foundation, uniting a planetary community of children through the awe... and wonder of space exploration and the healing power of art. Nicole is on a mission to creatively combine her spaceflight...
18 September 2018
First Moon tourist for SpaceX unveiled as Japanese billionaire
... Moon, Elon Musk revealed last night that it would be art collector and businessman Yusaku Maezawa, founder of online Japanese clothing .... Big spending does not appear a problem for this art collector and former rock drummer as last year Mr. Maezawa...
26 February 2018
Astronomy Photographer of the Year (Collection 5)
Astrophotography is both an art and a science and this is nowhere better ... one of the beauties of astronomy: that it crosses the putative cultural divide between art and science. What was the overall winner of the 2016 competition? A series of...
25 September 2020
Baikonur - Vestiges of the Soviet Space Programme
... Baikonur fits well into the Abandoned genre. More of an art book than a technical description of the place, it is ... illustrated by some of the colourful graphic and politically-informed art that ‘marketed’ the programme to the Soviet populace and the...
July 2014
X-51A Waverider, hypersonics, and the potential of airbreathing engines
... edges, can destroy all but the most robust materials The X-51A represented the state-of-the-art in aerospace research, in which high-fidelity numerical simulation was combined with ground test and flight experiment...
July 2014
Space technology transfer portals and the chance progress of innovation
... exacting requirements. Take, for example, the University Eye Hospital in Maastricht. It installed a new state-ofthe- art microscope to be used in precision eye operations, where surgeons needed to manipulate tissue layers a fraction of a millimetre...