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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
