May 2017
Spaceplane rationale - a new way of thinking
... costs and improved safety Low-cost access to orbit will enable the cost of travelling further afield to be greatly reduced. Large orbital space depots would become affordable, and these would be used for maintaining and re-fuelling...
18 July 2017
Overcoming the challenges of long term space travel
... and represents a fine investment for any engineering-minded students. Then build the roads The future of space travel will, of course, depend heavily on our ability to effectively utilise it and devise traffic systems suitable for the...
08 February 2016
Comparing Notes: Behind the Scenes of Space Travel
... André Kuipers is the first Dutch ESA astronaut with two space missions to his name. His second mission was the longest spaceflight...ins and outs of space travel, spanning decades from the beginnings of human space flight to the state of things today.
21 April 2017
Draper readies Dream Chaser for International Space Station
..., believes Dream Chaser represents a new chapter in space travel. “The future of routine commercial space flight is quickly approaching, promising to make a trip into space as routine as air travel. Dream Chaser is an important step by showing how...
September 2017
Science searches for cosmic company
...creatures. After all, if we could manage space travel, why wouldn’t highly advanced extraterrestrials, light-... turn to worlds orbiting other stars. Investigations using NASA’s Kepler space telescope suggest that perhaps as many as one in five stars ...
11 July 2015
The 18 quintillion planets in ‘No Man’s Sky’: how Hello Games can expand understanding of space travel
... will probably have tomorrow and the day after tomorrow – though where technological progress on the issue of space travel will ultimately lead the human race is an open question), would mostly amount to a lot of sitting around in a cramped...
