January 2016
Is Jupiter Really Our Protective Shield?
... be capable of supporting more than microbial life.’ [18] The ‘Jupiter as a comet shield’ scenario became ubiquitous in television/film documentary productions as well as the popular press. Yet, for this scenario, there appears to be a selection bias...
March 2016
Why We Need Space Artists
... editor that ‘the figures (of astronauts) are included only to give scale’! Bonestell worked on special effects for films under producer George Pal, including Destination Moon and Conquest of Space. He went on to lead a team of illustrators, working...
July 2016
Plasma Crystals - from space research to medicine on Earth and back to space again
..., the ‘surface micro-discharge’ electrode, developed at the Max Planck Institute and hence developed further (to a ‘thin film electrode’) by terraplasma GmbH (a spin-off company from the Max Planck Society). Before leaving the topic...
August 2016
Space for art
... over - or just beginning?’, asks Sarah Lieberman and ‘The promise of space tourism’ by Los Angeles-based author, film-maker and explorer Jason Klassi who writes that we live in a time of ‘unprecedented possibilities’. Asking these questions...
September 2016
Paediatric cancer patients aim for the stars with space inspired art project
... sessions and interviews with patients and their family members the way a football team uses game films, to understand what was working about the process and to demonstrate through first-hand accounts the role...
January 2017
New oceans beckon for solar sail technology
... one such deployment, completed in August 2016. The NEA Scout sail is made from a 2.5 micron-thick polyimide film coated with aluminium. The sail is unfurled using four, 7 m metallic booms that are deployed from two...
