01 October 2019
The Moon: A History for the Future
It’s great – and it’s important - to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first steps of men from planet Earth on the surface of another planetary body…but even the geekiest space nut can choke on a banquet of technical overviews and historical ...
04 May 2020
NASA commits to future Artemis missions with more SLS rocket engines
... flights. “This contract allows NASA to work with Aerojet Rocketdyne to build the rocket engines needed for future missions,” said John Honeycutt, the SLS program manager at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama...
16 April 2024
The End Of Astronauts Why Robots are the Future of Exploration
You know from the start that this is one of those ‘does what it says on the tin’ books. The title suggests astronauts are surplus to requirements; the subtitle substitutes robotic explorers; and most spacers know the UK Astronomer Royal’s views on ...
March 2016
Space Mining – the Reality of Tomorrow?
... well to consider Ray Kurzweil and his prediction about the coming ‘Singularity’ or those of Peter Diamandis in forecasting a future that is increasingly based on an extra-terrestrial and space-based economy. The value of platinum-rich asteroids have...
May 2019
A matter of perspective
... have no overview, no meta-perspective. In 2011 when I first began my ‘outer space’ series, I realised that in the near future we would be seeing the start of a period of enormous advances in the space industry. And in the meantime, the privatisation...
April 2021
On Mars as it is on Earth - preparing for settlement
... for the visionary Earth-Mars transport system for which a market does not yet exist. A prospective future company – let’s call it Planetopolis - devoted to building desert settlements on Earth as precursors of sustainable cities on both Earth and...
