January 2021
Developing the economy of a space nation
... AMPs successfully gained the votes they needed in the Parliamentary by-election to win a seat. For the first time in our ... full compliment of 150 AMPs in our State legislature. The AMPs-elect did not vote on proceedings at this Sitting, but after a ...
September 2025
Why the global space sector needs urgent regulation
... the stars. About the author George Freeman MP was Elected to Parliament in 2010 after a 15-year career in technology...Ministerial roles over the last 14 years. In 2024, he was elected Deputy Chair of the Science and Technology Select Committee and, in...
March 2016
Space Oddities: The Problem with Imagination
... to continue his work and resigned from the Air Force in 1966. Middle right: Joan Higginbotham was elected as an astronaut candidate by NASA in April 1996 and flew as a mission specialist on STS-116 Space Shuttle Discovery in December...
March 2016
Time for European visionary goals
... 55th anniversary of his historic spaceflight was celebrated on 12 April They looked into the future, well beyond election campaigns and popularity polls. Thanks to the foundations laid in the middle of the 20th century we have enjoyed...
August 2016
Are the days of innovation in global space over - or just beginning?
... people in regards to space? Public spending on space requires public support - politicians are accountable to the public at times of election, and although space may appear to be minor aspect of public policy, it can be costly. we should note that...
September 2016
Life in the extremes: confessions of an astrobiologist
... Space University and as a consultant for NewSpace companies before returning to my home country Slovakia. There I was eventually elected chair of the Slovak Organisation for Space Activities (SOSA), which designed and constructed the first Slovak...
