20 October 2016
Asgardia: The New Space Nation
... are nowhere close to reaching the red planet. Having a few robotic contraptions on Mars, does not amount to colonisation or habitation. It actually points to the contrary. The table below serves to illustrate the reality-fantasy disconnect and...
July 2014
Space 1.0 to Space 3.0: from Gagarin to market growth
...The development of cosmic science? Protection against asteroids? Colonising the Moon or Mars? Perhaps the search for alien...that he can live there. Bringing back those who go to colonise Mars can be left until later; possibly this would become possible...
June 2015
The new space ethics: COSPAR, Planetary Protection and beyond
...technology does not yet exist to an appropriate standard of certainty and reliability: terraforming of alien biospheres, the physical colonisation of other planets and the ability to mine, refine and return minerals and resources from other celestial...
February 2016
Space – Overcoming Our Limitations
...matter of money, but in no way block the route to space colonisation. What does impede humanity’s advancement into the future are our own...dreaming, his ardent belief in the idea that space colonisation is not only our destiny but our indelible right, ...
May 2019
The inadequacies and dangers of modern rocket technology
... to the problems of transferring Earth’s industry into space without the use of rockets, as well as the development and colonisation of other planets. Since then, I have done a lot of work, creating my own scientific and design school, which...
October 2024
Space industry trajectory under the spotlight of cultural anthropology
... Humankind is faced with two very different utopian demands. The first is the demand to explore outer space. To colonise. To ensure humanity’s future. To search. To learn. To acquire new resources and conduct research. The second is the demand...