October 2020
Connecting the global space community
..., including all leading space agencies, aerospace companies, research institutions, universities, societies, associations, institutes and museums worldwide. In the next 70 years, I see the IAF including an even wider range of communities, diverse...
February 2021
On the nature of spacepower
... warship of its time and the first to carry 100 guns. A contemporary engraving by J Jayne in the National Maritime Museum, London. High ground of space In Dolman and Bowen, two competing visions of space emerge. One, in which space...
May 2021
Dream big and reach the stars
... poverty line to attend Space Camp (an educational camp in Huntsville, Alabama, on the grounds of the US Space & Rocket Center museum at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center) for a week. This is definitely an example of a hands-on and fun experience...
November 2021
The philosophy of space missions today
.... The site is intended to operate as a base for space-related research and business, but also includes an art museum, a 4D cinema, and a restaurant selling astronaut food. The Space Port Japan Association hopes that Japan will...
25 April 2018
The Final Mission: Preserving NASA’s Apollo Sites
... preservation and some ‘success stories’ in space preservation (which of course includes Apollo capsules and other equipment in museums around the world). This is an academic but readable book. It has a 12-page reference section and an 11-page double...
31 December 2018
Rocket Men: the daring odyssey of Apollo 8
...that he was emotionally ‘sold’ on Apollo 8 from the moment he saw the recovered Command Module in a Chicago museum. Although he sees similarities in today’s political situation, he recognises that the mission itself provided a “significant difference...
