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...
October 2019
Time to overcome the expendable rocket mindset
... Bristol Spaceplanes Ascender, which is like a second-generation NF-104 but designed from scratch to reach space height. Ironically, it could have been built in the 1960s. The Lockheed NF-104 could reach a height of 120,800 ft (36.8 km), having...
April 2020
Is space poised to take another giant leap?
.... Apollo’s rock samples proved the Moon could contain everything that would be needed for such an endeavour: iron, titanium and aluminium. Could such exploration, and ultimately the exploitation of such mineral wealth be the step...
