April 2021
On Mars as it is on Earth - preparing for settlement
... in the event of any global downturn in the progress of civilisation on Earth, whether through political extremism, economic collapse, war, or environmental disaster. It would also act as proof of concept for the view that humanity has an open-ended...
July 2021
Collaboration and competition in lunar exploration
... number of countries involved has expanded considerably. Countries now involved in space exploration include the historical, Cold War opponents, the United States and Russia; European countries, primarily through the European Space Agency (ESA...
18 November 2016
Pluto's heart is an ocean of slushy ice
... ocean may serve as a "gravitational anomaly," or weight, which has provided an anchor in Pluto and Charon's gravitational tug-of-war. It is thought, that like other large basins in the solar system, that Sputnik Planitia was formed by the...
25 February 2022
Space Station rides above international conflict
... to see how even those can continue as normal.” David Burbach, a professor of national security affairs at the US Naval War College, believes NASA's statements suggest that spaceflight will continue as usual and in comments reported online by space...
October 2021
Space in the movies – lessons for spacefarers
...between good and evil. The original film, now called Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, released in 1977, was essentially...I sincerely doubt we’d do as well as Hollywood suggests in a ‘war of the worlds’. About the author Lembit Öpik was elected to ...
February 2020
Visions of spaceflight before the Space Age
...) by Akkan Pseudoman (pseudonym for Edwin Northrup). Post-war push The German military’s interest in the activities of ... and away!) also have the potential to be used as weapons of war (up, and then down). This is a dilemma with which rocketeers have ...
