November 2017
Radiation protection for space colonists and travellers
... usually hydrogen or helium and their isotopes (as produced by our Sun) but they can be much heavier nuclei, iron or even uranium if they come from more energetic events such as supernovae and black holes. High-speed...
May 2018
Woman on the Moon
... were eight smaller ‘Phases of the Moon’ all being created in 2012 and, later, a Lunar Habitat which ironically includes a radio telescope painted in 2013. These works are large and dramatic, using a limited palette of black...
August 2018
Measuring the pulse of Mars
... it be small and relatively dense or it could it be large and relatively less dense meaning it has other things beside iron and nickel? Those things are going to be critical pieces of information that InSight will help determine.” Mars...
October 2018
Funding the space frontier – a moment that changed the Universe
... that Russian airlock and floated into the Space Station it was like the Berlin Wall falling. Ironically of course, in this case it was a Russian airlock being pushed open by an American who had used the democratic...
November 2018
Why we should not assume that war in space is ‘inevitable’
... be heard. There are so many positive aspects to how space should be viewed. This is supported by law and practice. Ironically, a good starting point could also be drawn from the words of President Trump himself: “There is no place like...
July 2019
A reluctant American hero
... by Buzz Aldrin. One of its most interesting features is that it includes Neil Armstrong working at the side of the LM. Ironically this turned out to be the only clear 70 mm Hasselblad photograph of Armstrong captured on the lunar surface. The ‘gift...
