October 2018
Sustainable ways of living on the Moon and Mars
... like lunar-manufactured rocket fuel on the commercial market will surface in the future Viewers of the 2015 movie, The Martian, (as adapted from the book by Andy Weir) will be aware of the possibilities of using Mars soil...
January 2019
Visiting an asteroid to find out how life began
... and neutralisers to be shared between the four engines. It was one part of a tale that ended up making three movies in Japan. Fortunately for the Hayabusa2 team, the trip to asteroid Ryugu has been smooth sailing and...
February 2019
The challenge of procreation for future off-world settlers
... close to it - at these colonies, allowing children to grow and develop normally, and adults to maintain their health. Sci-fi movies often solve the problem with ‘graviton generators’ or some other trope not available to us. Soviet scientist and...
March 2019
Laying the foundations for cosmic habitation
.... Asgardia is doing its best to avoid those gloomy scenarios, not least because star wars (outside the movies) are to be avoided at all costs. Over the last year I’ve been working with Asgardia’s Members of Parliament (AMPs...
July 2019
Science and sensation in microgravity
.... Novespace has also provided special flights on-demand for a variety of commercials, photo shoots, television shows, and movies. The Mummy (2017), which starred Tom Cruise, required 64 parabolas for one crash scene, and Apollo...
August 2020
Revisiting the Drake Equation - a cultural addendum
... Message, the most powerful radio broadcast ever deliberately beamed into space. The 1982 Steven Spielberg movie E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial features a lovable alien. The now legendary Drake Equation asked the scientific community...
