July 2014
Space 1.0 to Space 3.0: from Gagarin to market growth
... payload actually grew: the operational costs of one shuttle launch cost the US around $450 million.1 A Russian poster from 1961, “Glory to the First Cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin!” In the 1980s and 1990s it was assumed that...
August 2016
The promise of space tourism
... in every jump for joy and in between every step we take. NASA’s ‘Explorers wanted on the journey to Mars’ poster, which encourages a different view of exploration. See ‘Space for art’, page 93. Apart from the thrill of weightlessness...
March 2017
Space research inspires innovation in fashion
... di Armstrong l’idea per i miei Moon Boot’ for Corriere del Veneto in July 2009. Standing in front of a giant poster of Buzz Aldrin walking on the Moon, he says: “It’s beautiful, it is strong, the man seems to come out from the...
September 2017
Science searches for cosmic company
Aliens have been a common fixture in science fiction since the Second World War when the development of modern rocketry encouraged the idea that we might eventually send humans to other worlds. Films and television were quick to depict a universe ...
January 2019
Is the NewSpace bubble about to burst?
... much larger projects will soon prove to be a complete debacle as well. Globalstar constellation. SpaceX bubble But the poster child for what I expect to be a bursting of the NewSpace bubble during 2019 can be seen in SpaceX’s recent attempts...
July 2019
Robotic astronomy on the Moon
... use through Space Calendar and Lunar Enterprise Daily, as well as a ‘Women in Space and Women on the Moon’ poster featuring the 63 women who have been to space so far. The lunar south pole. ILOA has also...
