April 2025
Lego’s tribute to NASA’s SLS and Artemis
.... Editor’s note ROOM published an article by Mark Williamson on ‘Lego’s replica space programme’ in Issue 24, Summer 2020. About the author Mark Williamson is an independent Space Technology Consultant and writer, and a Commissioning Editor for ROOM...
11 October 2018
ISRO: a personal history
... has been published on the Indian space programme, so this personal history is a welcome addition to the ‘space library’. The book is the story of an “award-winning senior scientist” involved with the programme “from its very inception”. Aravamudan...
July 2014
Space 1.0 to Space 3.0: from Gagarin to market growth
...2.0 was that it protected the role of the state as the main initiator, beneficiary and investor in space programmes and projects. Space research can once again be a leader of innovation only on the basis of a new visionary project. The most promising...
December 2014
Space for Earth: How ESA wants to use lessons learned above on the ground
... them into terrestrial systems poses a number of challenges, linked to the characteristics of space systems and the space sector more widely, and also the way space programmes are traditionally perceived and managed. The sector has faced these...
August 2016
International cooperation drives Germany’s space ambitions
...of national objectives in accordance with the German space strategy is carried out in large part in the context of ESA programmes. These are complemented by projects in the national space programme, which include providing instruments for ESA science...
September 2016
Co-operating in space transcends national identity
... returned to the Moon for 45 years. But do not forget how the missions of Apollo - and more recent space programmes - have changed our humanity and society in an irreversible way, perhaps in the process forcing us to accomplish not one...
