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...
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...
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...
29 April 2018
Mission to Methone
... experience. That said, this is clearly more of a ‘space opera’ than what science fiction aficionados call ‘hard SF’. Informed by his science background, Johnson writes straightforwardly with little superfluous waffle or artistic pretension. In fact...
January 2023
Private space stations and NASA’s effort to re-invent itself
... of private commercial space stations. There were many science fiction writers and movie producers who envisioned this type of...com/axiom-station). This may seem to some like science fiction but Axiom Space has contracts underway with Thales Alenia...
