June 2017
Spaceplane rationale - a new way of thinking
.... Spaceplanes were not developed at the time because the ‘space race’ to the Moon, driven by the Cold War soaked up the available funding. The aircraft company design teams were allowed to disband and the lobby...
September 2017
Spaceflight studies support geriatric health on Earth
... and MENA at both policy and tactical levels to position Thuraya as their key satellite communication provider in times of war, conflict, disasters and in peace. Amal is part of the core team which established the UAE Space Agency...
October 2017
The sci-fi noir world of Blade Runner
..., 2019 - that the original world of Blade Runner offered us. Compared to its earlier contemporaries Alien and Star Wars, it made more grounded futuristic projections, attempting to deal with the moral implications of cloning and the creation...
October 2017
Back to the future - heeding the lessons of history
... space community for many years that the Apollo programme suffered from the wrong motivation (Cold War) and the wrong approach (flags and footprints), the true answer to what happened lies embedded in recent...
November 2017
Preserving Apollo’s lunar legacy
...-profit organisation seeking to preserve the memory of all those who toiled during the intense competition of a Cold War that saw humankind leap into space - believes it is not the United States, but the United Nations...
September 2017
Australia’s unique space history
..., provides an excellent exhibition that presents the history of the range from its establishment in the aftermath of World War 2 until the early 2000s. Its collection of historic artefacts is complemented by the nearby rocket park and Woomera...
