July 2020
Trailblazing STEM education
... in February 2020 at the age of 101 here in Hampton, Virginia, was breaking barriers with her mind at the dawn of the Space Age. She was a female African-American mathematician working at NASA Langley Research Center in a segregated...
August 2020
Revisiting the Drake Equation - a cultural addendum
... explorers is attacked and brought before the king of the Moon’s subterranean inhabitants, the Selenites. Since the dawn of the first space era, press and public alike have referred to space as the new ‘frontier”, implying...
October 2020
Morality, rights and responsibilities in space
... tie them to the Earth. These people will be perhaps the first truly free citizens since the dawn of civilisation. Whatever framework for human society is going to work for them must be based on a deeply held and...
August 2021
Collision avoidance – time for agreement on space sustainability
... constellations and is rooted in the same ecological paradigm that we currently face terrestrially. Specifically, it was the dawning recognition by the international community that an increase in the demand for services from orbit would damage that...
August 2021
Born to juggle in space
... technically available to humans for centuries, the cognitive motivation would have only been apparent since the dawn of human spaceflight. The opportunity to throw a ball, experience the momentum of my body moving me to the ball without further...
September 2021
Near space - the air-space boundary question, astronauts and space tourism
... the beginning of space. What is beyond doubt is that the start of non-governmental, recreational spaceflight represents a new dawn for those looking at the legal framework governing human space activity. About the author Christopher Newman...
