March 2016
Saving Earth from an Expanding Sun
... edge of our Sun’s habitable zone moves past our planet’s orbit. Anyone who saw Woody Allen’s movie Radio Days knows that we were promised five billion more years of having a habitable planet! Sure, it’s five...
June 2017
Automated or human-operated systems?
Watching the movie The Martian recently I was captured by the creativity demonstrated by two key characters - the astronaut stranded on Mars, ...
June 2019
A reluctant American hero
... detailed interviews with Armstrong, his family and other contacts through his lifetime. Equally fascinating is the movie In the Shadow of the Moon, co-directed and produced by Chris Riley and released in 2007, which included interview...
February 2020
Investigation of the Coriolis effect in rotating space platforms
... Space Science & Investment Congress (ASIC). Arguably, most of us interested in space travel have seen or heard about the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey with its famous rotating spacecraft ‘Discovery One’. We have passed almost two decades...
January 2023
Clearing space junk from orbit
... four years. The rise of digital technologies has revolutionised our daily life as instant messaging, social media, movie streaming and online gaming are enjoyed by a growing part of the world’s population. It is not only the breadth...
February 2021
The Space Monuments Men
... bronze sculpture of Apollo 13’s Jack Swigert that I remembered seeing in the rotunda of the US Capitol Building while shooting a movie there some 10 years earlier. It didn’t even occur to me to see if there had been monuments to any other Apollo...
