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...
January 2018
Maximising the economic opportunities of deep space
... six years later. While the 1870s were characterised by stagnant economic growth as the ravages of the civil war were repaired, the 1880s and 1890s represented the largest economic expansion in percentage terms in the history...
May 2018
PLATO the habitable zone explorer
... from or approaches the Earth), astronomers were able to identify a periodic signal arising from the gravitational tug-of-war between the star and the planet. This let them work out the planet’s mass and...
