April 2019
Protecting our lunar legacy
... for some kind of conservation effort related to these first sites of human exploration on the Moon. It may seem a bit premature to consider this, but nowadays 46,000 tourists go to Antarctica annually – something which would have certainly surprised...
May 2019
Space for Art – Astronauts and artists
... painting in a very special way with imprints from a hammer he used on the Moon, training boots and little bits of Moon dust from the threads of his suit patch. A large part of the space community that is generally...
June 2019
Solar superstorms and their effects on Earth
... use an estimate for the size of one of these to infer the size of the others. The Carrington Event is a bit special because, even though it did not occur in the modern age, observers did have magnetometers and...
October 2019
Reusability is key to expanding future space launch business
... control and landing systems from New Shepard to use on the New Glenn first stage. Interestingly, it’s a little bit harder to land the smaller vehicle than it is the larger vehicle: it’s like trying to balance a pencil on your finger...
February 2020
Climate change and spaceports – a difficult balance
... all agree there is a problem and then work together for each and every solution is the tricky bit, but don’t make our space activities a casualty just as we finally get our new Space Age up and...
February 2020
Visions of spaceflight before the Space Age
.... Oberth was also a theoretician who was well-known to early rocket pioneers in Europe and beyond. He tried a bit of experimentation, but he was a better writer than scientist or engineer. Oberth privately published one of the most influential...
