January 2022
Earth - no longer humanity’s only home
... beyond - blasting into orbit. ISS dress rehearsals While aboard the ISS, astronaut Scott Kelly and cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko conduced a ‘Year In Space’ mission, teaching us how the human body reacts during long-term...
June 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
... of military space would undermine the popular view of disinterested exploration, discovery, heroic astronauts and cosmonauts, scientific applications and communications satellites. This was legally reinforced at international level, with the 1967...
January 2023
Asgardia expands its reach
... on page 3 for a full transcript of his address). The inauguration ceremony was hosted by Dumitru-Dorin Prunariu, a Romanian cosmonaut and Asgardia’s Head of Administration to the Head of Nation. It also included speeches from Lembit Öpik, Asgardia...
January 2023
Original Sin - Power, Technology and War in Outer Space
... terrestrial international politics”. US astronaut, Kevin Ford Canadian Space Agency astronaut Chris Hadfield and Russian cosmonauts Roman Romanenko (with camera) and Evgeny Tarelkin aboard the International Space Station on Christmas Eve 2012...
January 2023
Evolving human space culture – reflections on humanity’s cultural potential in space
... the traditional change of command ceremony, that ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti (second row) earlier handed over to cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev (front row), floats in the centre of the frame. Our challenge and service to our planet...
April 2024
Space nation reveals global recognition ambition
.... Chair of Parliament Lembit Öpik, Prime Minister Lena De Winne, and Head of the Administration to the Head of Nation, cosmonaut Dumitru-Dorin Prunariu also addressed journalists. Mr Öpik spoke about the world’s first digital democracy, a new...
