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...
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...
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...
April 2026
Robotics is the future of space labour
.... Space and robotics have always gone hand in hand – the two have been symbiotically paired through science fiction movies and literature from I, Robot to Blade Runner. New approach Icarus Robotics is taking a fundamentally different approach...
September 2026
Towards a research roadmap for human reproduction beyond Earth
... the fields needed for human reproduction beyond Earth. Until recently, they were largely confined to science fiction. Today, they have become the subject of an international scientific initiative bringing together experts in reproductive medicine...
26 February 2018
2001: The Lost Science – The Scientists, Influences & Designs
... work on rocketry provided the background material for science fiction films: from the space station in Hermann Potocnik... are particularly interesting in that they don’t look like science fiction; one could easily imagine a real moon bus based on...
