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...
August 2019
Architectural challenges of a Moon village
...Resilience and Sustainability, and a preliminary Masterplan. After the first workshop they started to develop a vision for a future settlement on the Moon and began to work on a hypothetical scenario, addressing the questions of what would happen and...
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...
March 2016
Exploration and cooperation at the heart of European space vision
... an infrastructure which will be continuously developed. At the same time the inspiration of exploration is of utmost importance to secure the future through motivated people.” Asked whether the space industry has become too risk averse when defining...
March 2016
Time for European visionary goals
...was celebrated on 12 April They looked into the future, well beyond election campaigns and popularity polls. Thanks ... exploration and discovery dating back hundreds of years. Working on a future lunar base or ‘Moon Village’ My response it that now is...
January 2017
Mini space station for mice to study effects of reproduction in reduced gravity
... years) rodent analogue reproduction experiments aboard the ISS are currently ongoing, as well as planned for the future. Research has also been conducted on the ground in simulated microgravity laboratory settings where rotational devices lessen...
