.... Even more to the point they reviewed totally new areas of commercial space activities and planning that did not exist in the early years of the space age. As always seems to be the case, technology and innovation in business and...
...did to great effect: ‘ferry rockets’, forerunners of the Space Shuttle, a space station powered by solar energy, Moon bases and much more... around 1950. A few years later saw the dawn of the Space Age, with the launch of Sputnik 1, and we began to see ...
...OST is an incredibly forward-thinking document that has kept space a useful and peaceful environment since the beginning of the Space Age, and fostered a variety of space activities ranging from military to science to commercial operations. It is not...
... satellites. Let’s look in more detail at two of these points - space debris and the potential danger from asteroids and comets. Space debris The first decades of the Space Age brought not only new and unprecedented opportunities and...