February 2016
200 Days in Space: Living in Orbit
...that you can put outside of the Space Station. Now, in science fiction it looks easy, going from inside to outside of the space .... One of the things you don’t get to see in science fiction movies (because they’re usually too busy saving the universe) ...
October 2024
Space industry trajectory under the spotlight of cultural anthropology
... a spotlight on congressional discourse, annual budgets, fictional representations, the narratives promoted by leading commercial space..., and as someone who intensely loves the legacy of science fiction, I struggle with letting go of some of these ...
February 2016
Space – Overcoming Our Limitations
... rocket equation, it’s not about physics - we solve those issues every single day. Everyday, something that was science fiction, fantasy or voodoo a few years before, turns into reality. It’s an amazing time, and it’s accelerating. And it’s getting...
May 2024
DNA across the universe - the new Noah’s Ark?
... humanity’s fate in the universe. Another influential supporter is Li Miao, the famous astrophysicist, cosmologist and writer of science and science fiction for children and adults, now at Sun Yat-Sen University School of Astronomy and Physics. What...
December 2014
Terraforming Mars: from CFCs to Total Recall
... a tiny fraction of its original endowment of water. Mars, the second-nearest planet to Earth, is a somewhat better candidate. Science fiction authors have for many years populated Mars with humans or humanoid races. I grew up reading Edgar Rice...
August 2016
Are the days of innovation in global space over - or just beginning?
... the zeitgeist, recorded Space Oddity one month before Apollo 11 landed on the Moon: Bowie’s early embrace of science fiction was noted by Billboard as a sign of the times. We must not underestimate the contribution made to the arts and...
