June 2017
Spaceplane rationale - a new way of thinking
... day. 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...
October 2017
Back to the future - heeding the lessons of history
... in the 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
... - a non-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...
August 2018
Flouting the rules on satellite registrations
...provide information “promptly”. Given the enormous technological progress since the 1970s and the absence of Cold War antagonisms, “as soon as practicable” can be inferred as “promptly”. At present the delay in registering satellites generally stands...
July 2019
Who owns outer space?
... charter 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
... surprise 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...
