April 2020
Plasma Clipper - opening the age of sail, in space travel
... times higher than the power it took to energise the coils in the first place. Since high-speed space travel is primarily a power problem, getting a million-to-one payback on your power is worthy of serious attention. Interestingly, since the...
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...
31 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...
September 2023
From the Earth to Mars
...set out to find the spark that took the dream of space travel from fantasy to reality. The results were surprising, even stunning...Jeffrey has long believed the best path forward for space travel and space stations is one that is led by commercial ...
