10 June 2019
NASA opens ISS to space tourists
As part of NASA’s mission to stimulate a low-Earth orbit (LEO) economy, the space agency is opening the International Space Station for commercial business by enabling up to two short-duration private astronaut missions per year, beginning as early ...
July 2016
Our changing world and the mounting risk of a calamitous solar storm
... radiation and solar ionic eruptions. It seems to me that it is time to re-examine the prime mission of space agencies. The prime strategic agendas of space agencies have been on cruise control for too long and need to be disruptive. Nobel Laureate...
April 2019
Scanning the skies for exoplanets
...most formidable planet-hunting satellites that a space agency has ever sent into space, Kepler. During its lifetime, Kepler... data collected on this uncommon exoplanet. “The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will provide amazing data on this planet,...
July 2020
Investigations into plant growth on the Moon
... such it will be very useful to cultivate off-world. Presently, there is a great deal of interest from government space agencies and private companies in lunar mineral resource exploration and extraction, as well as the establishment of Moon villages...
