28 May 2025
SpaceX faces renewed scrutiny over Mars ambitions after Starship malfunctions
... as a learning opportunity within its rapid development approach. Company CEO Elon Musk has doubled down on that philosophy, indicating that launch frequency will increase in the coming months, with ambitions to test hardware on a near-monthly...
23 April 2018
The International Atlas of Mars Exploration, Vols 1 & 2
... investigations performed. The larger volume 2, which includes a short volume 1 update section, follows much the same philosophy, though it covers the age of the rovers and thus includes detailed maps of their excursions. The author...
21 June 2019
ESA's new mission to intercept a comet
... for the next decades of scientific exploration of our Universe. "We are also happy to maintain the ‘fast’ mission philosophy by selecting Comet Interceptor within a year since the original call for proposals was made." The Comet...
01 October 2019
Finding our Place in the Solar System
... than the average physics tome. The book will be of interest to historians of astronomy and students of the philosophy of science, but it could be read by anyone with a reasonable level of scientific literacy. It is illustrated, though not profusely...
30 March 2021
The Value of Science in Space Exploration
... discover it, appropriate it and make sense of it in their own way. This is effectively what the author, a philosophy academic, is attempting with this book. His “overarching argument”, he writes, “is that space science is uniquely epistemically and...
22 June 2021
Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars
... analogue mission itself, relevant aspects of the space industry, her personal life and memories, and the philosophy of exploration.
