16 April 2020
China in Space
...Although this sounds a bit like the premise for a science fiction drama, much of the latter will feature unmanned scientific ... leading innovator by 2030…and the world-leading power in science and technology by 2049”, the centenary of the founding of...
01 April 2020
Alcohol in Space
...”. Following a brief history of alcohol and society, this light-hearted but informative book delves into “booze in science fiction” and “the history of drinking in space”. From Star Trek’s Romulan Ale to Hitchhiker’s Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster...
23 April 2021
Mars rover instrument, MOXIE, extracts first oxygen from Red Planet
... landed 18 February. While the technology demonstration is just getting started, it could pave the way for science fiction to become science fact – isolating and storing oxygen on Mars to help power rockets that could lift astronauts off the...
12 July 2021
Seraphim offers public opportunity to invest in space tech
... exciting investment area. We are delighted that investors in our IPO share our enthusiasm for helping to make science fiction become science fact,” he added. In a statement issued today (12 July 2021) Seraphim Space Investment Trust said its Capital...
01 April 2024
Astrotopia. The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race
... a niche subject, subsumed beneath the overarching reach of ‘aerospace’, sometimes confused with astronomy and often linked to science fiction. But you know that your subject has become prime-time when a professor of ‘religion and...
July 2014
A revitalised space sector reduces costs and makes space data more accessible
... are natural explorers, and space has always played to the human imagination; look at the long tradition of science fiction literature. The launch of the first artificial Earth satellite, followed four years later by the first man...
