October 2018
Sustainable ways of living on the Moon and Mars
...fourth, focusing on regolith construction to provide radiation shielding and physical protection. Land, regulation and contamination Key future issues will be establishing the ‘ownership’ both of lunar areas and Mars and the consequences for resource...
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...
February 2020
Visions of spaceflight before the Space Age
... effort grew and gained momentum. This article celebrates our spaceflight heritage, along with dreams of the future, from the perspective of the past. It is not meant to provide an exhaustive history of spaceflight and rocket development. Rather...
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...
October 2024
Space industry trajectory under the spotlight of cultural anthropology
... commercial space development, but how do those in the business feel about challenging the very essence of humanity’s future in space - or at least the pathway to get there? In her new book, Ground Control, anthropologist Savannah Mandel experiences...
