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...
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...
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...
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 2026
Humanity – the potential of space
...), one of two asteroid mining companies launched that year. At the time, asteroid mining was widely dismissed as science fiction. But working with an incredible team of cofounders, we helped make it ‘legit’. The same seriousness was being applied...
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...
