18 July 2017
Overcoming the challenges of long term space travel
...overcome some significant engineering challenges. Increasingly, those looking to begin work in the budding field of space colonisation are taking advantage of online civil engineering degree programmes like those offered by Ohio University. Of course...
June 2017
How to build a Moon base cheaply
... base would cost $35 billion to construct and $7.35 billion a year to maintain. It is clear therefore that until the cost of space access is lowered the situation with building a base on the Moon is unlikely to change. Considering the current level...
April 2017
Surviving radiation for space colonisation
... exceeding their nation’s career limits for radiation exposure. Orion is NASA’s first spacecraft for longduration deep space exploration. It will transport humans to and from interplanetary destinations such as asteroids, the Moon and eventually Mars...
May 2017
Humanity is moving towards a new reality
... also well see the creation of permanent space bases and perhaps even true space colonisation. In this future time the importance of...the US. Already some have claimed that authorising such space mining activity is tantamount to a claim of sovereignty...
February 2016
Space – Overcoming Our Limitations
... discoveries and advances are only a matter of time, at most a matter of money, but in no way block the route to space colonisation. What does impede humanity’s advancement into the future are our own limitations, the limits we set...
December 2014
Terraforming Mars: from CFCs to Total Recall
... 2 is a closed, ecological system in Oracle, Arizona that has been used to explore the viability of biospheres for space colonisation Back to Mars again: one might conceivably replenish the N2 on Mars by re-directing nitrogen-rich comets or asteroids...
