January 2018
Creating a viable cislunar economy
In the history of humankind there have been two major economic revolutions. First, the agricultural revolution of roughly 10,000 years ...
October 2018
Mining the Moon for fun and profit
... in our daily lives and has played a prominent role in the spirituality of people of many cultures across human history. It is only in recent decades that we have begun to realise the economic importance of the Moon. One of the first...
April 2020
Protecting against the dangers of space radiation
The world is at an ambitious juncture in the history of human space exploration. International space agencies and a number of private companies are aligned to go back to the Moon ...
April 2020
Evolutionary lessons for an interplanetary future
... me of the clues that Darwin noted during his 1835 visit that helped him piece together the history of life on these islands. He saw that individual variations - from the shape of a finch’s beak or a tortoise’s carapace - could...
May 2020
Developing a commercial market for small sample return
... as planetary scientists, who think the Moon, preserved without weather to erode it, could reveal discoveries about the history of the solar system. We believe there could be a sustainable multi-flight market for lunar sample return in the...
October 2020
Open Source Space
... space can complement each other to create new affordable space missions, it is fascinating to trace the parallel histories of these areas of development and discover how similar constraints led to their inception. It is also interesting to explore...
