In the year 2000, writer, scientist and prophet, Sir Arthur C. Clarke sent a fax to an unknown inventor who had created an odd and innovative aircraft wing. Clarke complimented the inventor, Pat Peebles, and included a quotation from Clarke’s own ‘...
Humanity’s desire to go into space is dictated by evolution. Far from being strange or aberrant, it is the natural next step for our species. Yet our cosmic expansion is bound to run up against barriers, which could include the rise of a new, post-...
On 11 February 2016 a team of scientists from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) formally announced the landmark discovery of ...
Jan Woerner is no stranger to the international space scene. Between March 2007 and June 2015 he served as Chairman of the Executive Board of the German Aerospace Center (DLR). And, before joining as ESA Director General last summer, he headed up ...
This April marked the 55th anniversary of the first human spaceflight into Earth orbit. Those formative decades in the middle of the 20th century saw Europe, still recovering from its recent shattering military past, building its industrial strength...
SLS represents a game-changing spaceflight capability, enabling mission profiles that are currently impossible to become possible. Conceived and designed for exploration of deep space, the primary purpose of SLS is to enable NASA’s journey to Mars ...