June 2021
Is NewSpace really so new?
... was elected as President serving from 2011-2018. His publications cover articles on commercial space topics, space tourism and, inter alia, a book on Space Marketing (Kluwer, 2000) and an IAA Report on Suborbital Spaceflight (IAA, 2014). His present...
February 2022
A new legal system for space
... of humans in a vehicle built and owned by a non-governmental entity: the drive towards ‘space tourism’ had started. This renewed focus on the commercialisation of space, and the opportunities it presents, got me thinking about the laws that are...
March 2022
Space travel and environmental sustainability
...be exposed to the Overview Effect of seeing our planet Earth from space, the result would be greatly beneficial. This is the promise of private passenger spaceflight, or pioneering space tourism, which after a decade’s hiatus - since the last private...
September 2026
Towards a research roadmap for human reproduction beyond Earth
...SpaceX continues to pursue its long-term vision of Mars settlement. At the same time, space tourism is expanding, the number of people travelling into space is increasing steadily and, crucially, those people are no longer all professional astronauts...
October 2015
The Global Space Governance Study – A new regulatory framework for New Space?
..., retrofit, and servicing, possible active orbital debris removal from LEO, solar power satellites, space mining, planetary defence, space tourism, hypersonic transportation, and commercial activities in protospace (the area above commercial air...
July 2019
Settling the final frontier
... in private and commercial spaceflight, but financial analysts see a bright and profitable future in space-based commerce. Off-Earth mining, space tourism, and the vast range of services available from commercial satellites are just a few. Clean...
