30 December 2018
Foreword to Spaceflight: an illustrated bibliography of pre-1958 publications on rocketry and space travel
... is more rose-tinted than real!). The book also includes a “Russian Addendum” featuring 163 Russian-language space books followed by a section including books in eight other (European and Scandinavian) languages. As a whole, the volume concentrates...
August 2020
Interstellar aspirations
... and looks forward to a technology that might just make it possible. The earliest science fiction story postulating space travel, albeit sarcastically, was ‘True Story’ written by Lucian of Samosata in the 2nd Century (Classical era). More serious...
February 2020
Visions of spaceflight before the Space Age
...). He continued writing about spaceflight following World War II and is perhaps best known for Rockets, Missiles and Space Travel, which first appeared as Rockets: The Future of Flight Beyond the Stratosphere (Viking, 1944), and which went...
November 2017
Radiation protection for space colonists and travellers
... of metal and water or metal and plastic should be able to absorb most of this if it is thick enough. Particulate radiation Space travellers moving out of the shelter of Earth’s atmosphere and magnetic field will have to contend with high levels...
January 2019
Space for Art – Love letter to Earth
... children who face difficulties and health issues in their young lives. When we think about space travel, many of us imagine rockets, stars and travelling to faraway as-yet unexplored places. In reality, we are also looking for the connection back...
February 2020
Investigation of the Coriolis effect in rotating space platforms
... platform, combined with the simultaneous rotation of the human’s head (active Coriolis Coupling). For the ‘space traveller’ inside the spaceship this may result in a severely restricting environment, where any head movement outside of the ...
