October 2024
The Human Spaceship - Off Balance
.... Size 2.0m high x 4.0m long x 1.0m wide In the 21st century, this extends to space architecture and the requirement for inspiring and practical habitat designs which need to endure in ‘off-world’ landscapes and encompass natural resources. Along...
20 January 2016
Rick Tumlinson Asks and Answers: If Space is So Hard, Why Should We Go there?
... Helen Keen Presents a Humorous Look at How Science Fiction Inspires Space Science 3D Printing Our Future in Space and on ...Make Intelligent Robots That Understand the World Aspire to Inspire Comparing Notes: Behind the Scenes of Space Travel Space ...
28 August 2017
Clockwork rover considered for future Venus mission
...put forward by a mechatronics engineer for a ‘steam-punk’ inspired rover, that could one day traverse the hellish surface of ...Innovative Advanced Concepts program. AREE is a clockwork rover inspired by mechanical computers, the type which use levers ...
March 2015
Sowing a new dream
... on my shoulders. This was not just an honour, it also presented a great challenge to me. The spinning top experiment was inspired by Wang’s grandparents It took great effort to select the kind of experiments that I wanted to show in space class. The...
March 2016
Why We Need Space Artists
... moonscapes showed dramatic, towering mountains - so much more inspiring than the flat, drab landscape on which Apollo 11 ...(1952) and Man on the Moon (1953), among others, inspired future generations of space artists, including of course myself. Early...
October 2017
The sci-fi noir world of Blade Runner
... This particular view of the future would later become an inspiration for countless films, including the obvious Dark City, Matrix and...let us cite a small passage from the novel that inspired Blade Runner: “ultimately, the empathic gift blurred the ...