July 2014
Is there a space race or are India and China just coming of age?
... Launius, Associate Director of Collections and Curatorial Affairs at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. "It doesn't mean they don't do science or that those scientific discoveries are not important." That...
September 2016
Moon or Mars - how logical is NASA’s next step?
... hopes to acquire rights to mine the Moon. Drawing by S Fokke, and improved by J Smit, from the Dutch Maritime Museum showing a meeting between the directors of the VOC and the Stadtholder, or executive, of the Dutch Republic in 1771...
September 2017
Binary stars and their extraordinary lives
... her PhD at University College London and held positions at the Swiss Polytechnic, Zurich, and the American Museum of Natural History, New York. She was an Australian Research Council Future Fellow.
May 2018
Space safety – the problem with dual hatting
... its 200th voyage but the defects were there from the start. The supersonic airliner Concorde is in a museum because of inadequacy in its fundamental design. The World Trade Center in New York collapse was due to a failure...
May 2018
Woman on the Moon
... about space exploration and science of the cosmos. She has participated in several international residencies, including Corning Museum of Glass, USA, and Banff Centre for Arts, Canada, and also in Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden and...
June 2018
Archaeologist of the future
... mail anything to. However, there is one particularly interesting payload: the MoonArk. It is nothing more than the first museum to be sent to the Moon, a ‘highly collaborative and massively integrated project intended to spark wonderment for future...
