October 2020
Morality, rights and responsibilities in space
..., I am saddened, appalled and confused. Yes, governments made the initial investments in space exploration as part of their Cold War Space Race. But now the children of those times have stepped up into their footprints to take the giant leaps...
October 2021
Technology transfer and the ‘local’ space market
... vehicles, together with the continued success of Elon Musk, have prompted a global commentary on the ‘billionaire space race’, but space innovation also operates at a local level. In this article the authors consider the importance of the interplay...
April 2024
Terraformal dreaming
... to leave the rocks alone. This article is based on an extract from Astrotopia: The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race by Mary-Jane Rubenstein and published by The University of Chicago Press. It is reprinted with permision and all rights...
January 2023
China’s space ambitions fuel defence spending and global innovation
... barriers to entry and dramatically increased the number of space faring nations with satellites in orbit. The new space race of the early 21st century has increased the risk of operating in space with growing debris, congestion and anti-satellite...
May 2019
Cold comfort for astronauts
... US national budget. Today the figure is about 0.5 percent. After the Space Race, space programmes lost their high government priority. As a result, today’s space exploration is dominated by objects and artefacts that are mostly conceived, designed...
November 2019
Cosmo’s adventures in animated edutainment
...it if you can… at the height of the great space race and Apollo era, a lone astronaut, Eugene ‘Cosmo’ ...storytelling, rocket science is provided by the education team at the Space Foundation - his ‘mission control’. Cosmo showing himself off in ...
