May 2019
Cold comfort for astronauts
... a normal part of operations, flights were inherently risky, and each flight was treated as a stand-alone event. Culture shift By the 1980s, a shift had occurred to promoting spaceflight as continuous, routine and safe. This required realignment...
March 2015
Twinkle, twinkle satellite
...does help to consider the satellite’s more recent role in pop culture, one that has developed and matured since the Cold War waned...beauty of the technology is like the dangerous beauty of pop culture’s spies. They can destroy your life, sure - steal ...
April 2020
Satellite mega-constellations pose threat to ground-based astronomy
...Telescope observations Not building these satellite constellations would be the best option to avoid their impact on science, culture and the landscape The effect on instrument-based observations strongly depends on the field of view. The probability...
May 2018
Woman on the Moon
...science and education project uses art practice to place a new cultural footprint on the lunar surface. The Moon is forever wrapped ... like to send artworks to the Moon and make that cultural footprint. One of my smaller art projects includes a series...
May 2019
A matter of perspective
... and make visible things that normally remain hidden to most people. I put specially selected themes in the cultural focus of public perception. Through my works I raise questions to which there might well be no answers. For over 20 years...
October 2020
Morality, rights and responsibilities in space
... domain in which to institute its principles at a foundational level in a new set of human activities, rather than overlay it on existing cultures and interactions. But even this important document is not broad enough and doesn’t include other basic...
