April 2018
Servicing the space economy
... architectures have been proposed with refuelling for missions to the Moon and Mars. SpaceX founder Elon Musk has proposed such an architecture for his Mars colonisation plan. The leading space faring nations of the...
October 2018
Funding the space frontier – a moment that changed the Universe
... we needed to at last begin to pry open the airlock. Well before what I call the ‘billionaire cavalry’ of Bezos, Musk, Branson and the others showed up, some of us worked for decades to figure out how to fund the frontier...
October 2018
Sustainable ways of living on the Moon and Mars
... to make the system work. However, researchers believe the Sabatier system has a good chance of working. Elon Musk is banking on local fuel supply manufacture on Mars to allow for the refuelling of its BFR Mars spacecraft and...
February 2019
The Space Elevator – an alternative path to space?
...]. 3 “Non-rocket_spacelaunch,” [Online]. Available: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-rocket_spacelaunch. [Accessed 13 10 2018]. 4 E. Musk, “BFR (rocket),” Wikipedia, 29 September 2017. [Online]. Available: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BFR_(rocket...
December 2019
Human conception and childbirth in space
...) in space - seems to be an attractive achievement. Of course, private billionaires are also joining this new space race: Elon Musk is one of those also aiming to be the first to put people on Mars and Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic has...
February 2020
Opportunity knocks for UK space industry
.... He invented the petrol electric car in 1927 and filed the first patent in 1932 for what Elon Musk now calls the Hyperloop, but which my grandfather called the ‘Sphericar’ - a working model of which was in the...
