September 2016
Life in the extremes: confessions of an astrobiologist
... in hot, very saline or extremely acidic conditions? It was because extremophiles had long surpassed what the crew of Starship Enterprise regularly boasts about in Star Trek - that they go where no one has gone before. A famous astrobiologist...
August 2018
Flying to the stars
... for answers to these questions. References 1 A. Bond, “Project Daedalus – The Final Report on the BIS Starship Study,” 1978. 2 A. M. Hein, K. F. Long, D. Fries, N. Perakis, A. Genovese, S. Zeidler, M. Langer, R. Osborne, R. Swinney, J. Davies...
April 2019
Space launch industry analysis
..., is partially reusable. Meanwhile, as NASA races to complete its SLS Block 1, SpaceX is designing an even larger rocket – the Starship/BFR Booster combination. The rocket is designed to provide flights to the Moon and Mars, but will also...
August 2019
The next us – our evolution in deep space
... excel in academia and industry and are exceptional practitioners of science. As Orchestrator of Engagement with the 100 Year Starship Project (100YSS), Alires applied the art and science of the long view to engage international partnerships for...
August 2020
Interstellar aspirations
..., even if it took a long time (perhaps a century) to develop. So, NASA and DARPA sponsored a project called ‘100 Year Starship’, the highlight of which was to be a large meeting in Orlando, Florida in 2011. However, the idea was widely criticised...
August 2020
Interplanetary spaceflight and restorative justice
... commander would probably also need to be empowered to decide whether further action on return to Earth was necessary SpaceX Starship approaching Mars - a journey to the red planet could take up to nine months. Secondly, although the discussion may...
