May 2018
Taxation of outer space: a next step for space exploration?
..., and we are closer than ever before to the development of a space market economy, then the world’s legal community is surely obliged to revisit current space law conventions and treaties to provide more detailed legislation. But in calling...
June 2018
Striding through space
..., and three mission specialists, Ronald McNair, Robert Stewart and McCandless. The first task of deploying two communications satellites was performed properly, although the boost motors to transfer them to their operational orbits both malfunctioned...
August 2018
Making a cosmic impression
... and working in space, to paint in space, and now to share my spaceflight experience through my artwork. I’m also thankful to be able to communicate a love of space and art and science through my regular column here in ROOM. I feel like I’m actually...
September 2018
Debris or not debris - is that the question?
..., in the broadest possible sense, the solutions thereto. All of this, in the sincere hope that the international community can together transcend the many entangled obstacles to arrive at global concerted action against an ever-growing debris...
October 2018
Could salty brines be the key to microbial life on Mars?
... of Mars as a dry and lifeless planet should be abandoned as a new perspective emerges from the scientific community - that of a planet with extensive, transiently habitable environments in the shallow subsurface ‘soil’. The publication, entitled...
October 2018
Using space-based data for humanitarian causes
...and have an affirmative duty to not cause such suffering. States in violation would be subject to intervention by the international community. This would of course raise questions of how to prove that states were not complying with the responsibility...
