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...
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...
March 2015
Dawn of ion propulsion
... tested ion propulsion and other high-risk technologies, helped bring ion propulsion from the domain of science fiction to science fact. Dawn is one of DS1’s beneficiaries, and being the first spacecraft ever built to orbit two target...
August 2016
The promise of space tourism
... life on Earth as doctors, engineers and inventors. Today’s students don’t view living and working in space or on Mars as science fiction, they see it as the future. SpaceShipOne nestled safely beneath her mothership, the White Knight and (below...
November 2018
Being human in space
...programme.” Space generation Many people only know space from the science fiction dramas and computer games that play out on the big ... and family, many people only know space from the science fiction dramas and computer games that play out on the big...
