March 2022
Space travel and environmental sustainability
... uses Shatner’s experience as a launch pad for addressing some of the bigger issues on the environmental responsibility of private space travel participants. While the younger folks sprayed one another with champagne, Shatner remained thoughtful. One...
October 2026
Who will build humanity’s future in space?
....” The important distinction, he says, is not simply a willingness to accept danger but the professional ability to manage risk. “Space organisations should seek the second quality.” Today, serving as a Global Ambassador for Blue Abyss – the extreme...
October 2026
Dream of a lifetime - Witnessing Artemis II from the Kennedy Space Center press site
... also opened doors to spacecraft processing facilities, astronaut interviews and mission briefings, providing an insider’s view of America’s space programme that I could only once have dreamed about. Those years covering the Shuttle programme shaped...
March 2016
Space Oddities: The Problem with Imagination
... contribute to scientific advances was stunted by the lack of imagination around them. Veterok and Ugolyok, launched into space on 22 February 1966 aboard the Cosmos-110 biosatellite, pictured at the Institute of Medical and Biological Problems, USSR...
March 2016
Space Mining – the Reality of Tomorrow?
...to develop new and more cost-effective robotics missions, advanced navigation and precision manoeuvring in space, improved space situational systems, lower cost satellite manufacturing techniques and improved power systems including higher efficiency...
March 2016
Why We Need Space Artists
... take a look at the history and background of space art. Most space artists would dearly love to visit other worlds; even ...to great effect: ‘ferry rockets’, forerunners of the Space Shuttle, a space station powered by solar energy, Moon bases and much...