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