July 2020
Are we entering a post-Overview Effect era?
... considers its future development. Whilst writing The Overview Effect, I wanted to create a revolution in how we think about space exploration, our planet and ourselves. For a long time, I thought I had failed in this endeavour but even though...
September 2020
Commercial opportunities beyond Earth orbit
... will grow as this decade progresses. Commercialisation of space exploration, however, will not end with the lunar economy...and a successful lunar economy will lead to further deep space exploration. The time when we land the first person on Mars...
January 2021
Asgardia’s project for a new module to expand Space Station
... to use standard commercially available launch vehicles. The project is very much in line with the goals of ESA’s space exploration strategy Apart from providing additional docking ports, the configuration will meet all the requirements for...
January 2021
Time to change our relationship with space?
...then we must address them here before we seek recourse to other worlds. Space exploration is not the answer – at least not yet. There will be ... landscapes in pursuit of knowledge. Satellites ARE space explorers. Can anyone doubt that after Rosetta and...
July 2021
A shared vision for space exploration
...celestial body outside of Earth. In those intervening decades, we have made advances in space science, engineering and commerce but, when it comes to hands-on experience in exploring another world, humanity is only now about to break the half-century...
February 2022
A manifesto for Europe in space
... is from the 1979 flyby of NASA’s Voyager spacecraft. Inspiration Does Europe also want independent access to space for future space exploration, not only in LEO but also on the Moon and Mars? Finally, there is the matter of the...
