February 2019
Building a space museum from scratch
... Lladro ceramic statue of a US astronaut came out of the next box, along with an old Gemini-era astronaut food pack, the type you add water to and suck the resulting concoction out of a tube. On to the crates...
May 2019
Cold comfort for astronauts
... through engineering and technological means, aligned with the current paradigm. For example, metabolic needs, including food, water and air, are sustained by the Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS). Habitats and...
May 2019
Growing Australia’s space industry
..., the sky has been critical to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in dictating seasonal activities around food and movement, a reflection of what is happening on the land. With a focus on industry, the Australian Government requested...
May 2019
The inadequacies and dangers of modern rocket technology
... that for Mars, and it’s much more comfortable to live there: warmer by 100C, we have air and oxygen, food, fresh water (it is worth melting the snow) and it is still our native planet! Moreover, an air ticket will...
July 2019
Settling the final frontier
...outgrow our planet’s current capability to sustain us without some major technological advances. Limitless clean energy, revolutions in food production, and the creation of clean fresh water may be provided via scientific breakthrough, but there will...
November 2019
The economic promise of space
.... In fact, space manufacturing is going on right now, with protein crystals, semiconductor wafers and microencapsulated drugs, foods and pesticides already being produced as a result of research on the International Space Station. Bigelow Aerospace...
