13 April 2019
Space Sirens, Scientists and Princesses
... of Felicity Jones as Jyn Erso in the “Rogue One” Star Wars story. Much of the coverage is bound to be predictable: we all... remember Carrie Fisher’s spunky Princess Leia in the original Star Wars film, which was released in 1977 when ‘feminist’ was...
19 September 2023
The Atlas of Space Rocket Launch Sites
...serious space journalists, especially since the end of the Cold War. The same could be said for Europe’s launch site in French... Guiana (though minus the Cold War reference) and it is ably covered in this book. It is ...
01 April 2025
Who Owns Outer Space?
... this is not blessed with a happy ending. Channelling the war in Ukraine, the authors consider “whether the long-stable space...the ‘pellet ring’, a “potential weapon” of the Cold War that involves launching millions of tiny steel balls into orbit. This...
July 2014
Is there a space race or are India and China just coming of age?
... is an indicator of your power and technology prowess", says Joan Johnson-Freese, a space policy expert at the US Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. "The same thing holds true in Asia now." China is steadily increasing its...
July 2014
Why become a cosmonaut? To preserve knowledge
... to expand the boundaries of knowledge. It is true that the space race became one of the symbols of the Cold War. And yet, it was not simply because of competition between the superpowers that space became an area for...
July 2014
A revitalised space sector reduces costs and makes space data more accessible
... with the explorer in us all. But the primary impetus for the exploration of space was the Cold War rivalry of the USA and the USSR. The ensuing ‘race for the Moon’ was a staggering feat...
