July 2019
Lessons from our first race to the Moon
... use of liquid oxygen along with refined kerosene, similar to the fuel mix of the German V2 rockets in World War 2. Oxygen has to be cooled to below -219C (-361F) to liquify it, which meant that it was not a good propellant for...
July 2019
Who owns outer space?
... for the Space Age”, having come into force in 1967 amidst the tense atmosphere of the Cold War. According to lawyer and scholar, Carol R Buxton, the launch of Sputnik in 1957 sent “waves of alarm through the...
July 2019
Settling the final frontier
... you, but it shouldn’t. The agency was created to lead civilian space efforts in 1958, during the Cold War and immediately following the USSR’s success with Sputnik. The settlement of space was not on its radar...
August 2019
Reinventing the space museum
... scientific accuracy or truth. Reviving the space museum through contemporary art means there will always be a tug of war between the heart and the mind, so to speak. A balance needs to be struck between providing adequate information and...
