July 2020
Life in the universe – common or not?
... is much higher than unity, it would be in conflict with the lack of evidence for multiple abiogenesis events in Earth’s history. If we discover organisms beyond Earth, the first possibility is that they have the same origin as us (i.e., born by the...
December 2014
MAVEN and the evolution of Mars
... places and their resources. Earlier in modern human history there were new continents to be found, occupied and..., MAVEN already plays a role in the very human history of robotic solar system exploration – unexpected discoveries notwithstanding....
June 2017
Spaceplane rationale - a new way of thinking
... from expendable to reusable launchers will come to be seen as being as profound as the change from balloons to aeroplanes in the history of air transport. The perception of low-cost and safe access to space using existing technology will change...
November 2017
Preserving Apollo’s lunar legacy
... to the stars. They mark an achievement unparalleled in human history and they embrace, and poignantly echo, our continued efforts to... the private sector unique opportunities and challenges to make history. And just as the Apollo project was built on...
16 July 2018
Spaceflight in the Shuttle Era and Beyond
... these competing depictions to “unpack the meaning of the spaceflight enterprise”. It is replete with the trappings of an academic history (50-plus pages of chapter notes and index) and, at the same time, extremely readable – no mean feat in itself...
19 July 2018
The Long Space Age
..., asteroid mining and Elon Musk! – offered an alternative model. In contrast, according to its blurb, this economics-based history of the Space Age “clearly shows that the current prominence of private-sector American spaceflight is the re-emergence...
