January 2023
Is human space exploration DOOMED?
Humanity’s desire to go into space is dictated by evolution. Far from being strange or aberrant, it is the natural next step for our species. Yet our cosmic expansion is bound to run up against barriers, which could include the rise of a new, post-...
07 May 2018
Smallest rocket by Jaxa sets a Guiness World record
... minutes after liftoff, making it one of the fastest entries into space ever performed. The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency will no doubt be delighted with the launch as last year’s inaugural test flight of the SS-520-5 crashed...
June 2015
Lunar Mission One: crowdfunding endeavour and drilling on the Moon
...would be underwritten separately. Lunar pioneering Lunar Mission One is without doubt pioneering a new method of financing space exploration, a new strategy of working with industry and a new way of engaging with the public. Increasingly I get people...
January 2018
Cosmic cocktails and galactic moonshine
...isn’t cheap. So, they tend to have reconstituted beer and spirits…” Teetotal in space? Historically alcohol and space exploration have had a complicated relationship. The world’s space agencies, including NASA, have largely prohibited astronauts from...
February 2017
Opening up the infinite frontier
... that allow earlier and cheaper participation in the use and exploration of space, and create more entry points for those without...them. On the one hand and for most of history, space exploration has been the domain of governments, and so most of the ...
21 March 2018
NASA aims for the Moon with commercial help
...-Gateway, these missions will usher in a new era of exploration of the Moon and its resources, and provide a training ...lunar orbits over its lifetime to maximise science and exploration operations using advanced high-power solar electric propulsion. ...
