March 2015
Sowing a new dream
... to mention manual rendezvous and docking. The space class was unique, however – it was the first such educational endeavour for China’s human space mission and it was broadcast live not only in China but all...
June 2015
The real Interstellar: space travel theories from Tsiolkovsky to wormholes
... of research in the present day. Besides its obvious philosophical value, such research can effectively be used in education. And the effectiveness of it is determined by the specifics of the problem of interstellar travel – which is based in the...
June 2015
FanWing: short take-off capability creates a new way to fly
... appear. The aircraft looks odd and amateurish, and the provenance was, as Peebles says himself, ‘a self-educated nobody from nowhere.’ He realises now that from the outside it would have been almost impossible to take...
February 2016
The Benefits of a British Spaceport
... technical failure or pilot error. A well thought-out spaceport plan should also include a business park and an education centre. Most people like to think that a spaceport would create well-paid careers, improve the UK’s technological...
