August 2020
Revisiting the Drake Equation - a cultural addendum
... such an addendum to the Drake Equation. Cuneiform tablet (circa 20th-19th century BC) on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Scientists have studied ancient languages such as cuneiform in an effort to understand what an alien...
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...
April 2025
Racing to the Moon
... plan. A model of the Mengzhou, formerly known as the Next-Generation Crewed Spacecraft, displayed at the National Museum of China. Artemis architecture China’s leader, Xi Jinping, wants China to be “a great space power” In early Artemis missions...