June 2015
The new space ethics: COSPAR, Planetary Protection and beyond
... of life. As a NASA spokesman once wryly observed, the best way to find life on another planet is to import it from Florida.10 There are also broader environmental issues, as yet unforeseen, which could have profound repercussions for any...
October 2015
Finding Earth-like worlds: the tale of how Kepler-452b was discovered
... rocket carrying NASA’s Kepler spacecraft blasts off from Launch Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 10:49 p.m. EST on 6 March 2009. Ron’s analysis demonstrated that we needed to collect a lot more data in order to recover the...
August 2016
Fireflies and saucers
... thing is - he actually created his own UFO! Astronaut John H. Glenn wearing a Mercury pressure suit at Cape Canaveral, Florida, during preflight training activities for his Mercury- Atlas 6 flight in 1962. He made America’s first manned Earth...
August 2016
National legislation provides incentives for private business
... further the objective of attracting private capital to their territories. The landscape at NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida is gradually changing with commercial companies like Boeing and SpaceX appearing on once exclusively government territory...
August 2016
Space for art
... of imaginative and inspirational posters, originally commissioned by NASA for an exhibit at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor’s Complex in Florida, has recently been released for anyone to download and display. These posters are all part of NASA...
January 2017
Elon Musk and Mars - looking for a snowball effect
... version is to hold a couple of hundred tonnes of propellants for transport to low Earth orbit (LEO). Launch site in Florida for SpaceX Interplanetary Transportation System. The mission architecture involves a flight straight to the surface of Mars...
