April 2020
Lunar artefact – a time capsule for the future
... statements for the artists themselves. Carl Sagan’s Golden Record, sent into interstellar space aboard the Voyager spacecraft, set a course as a more didactic synthesis of the human experience, and was thereby more pluralistic in its...
July 2020
Pandemic in space – are we ready?
... IHR also addresses measures regarding “conveyances”, which include aircraft, ships “or other means of transport on an international voyage”. A restrictive reading encompasses the transport of persons and cargo between international borders, but the...
August 2020
Revisiting the Drake Equation - a cultural addendum
...an alien encounter and trying to avoid an extraterrestrial trail of tears. OpinionIn a still from Georges Méliès’ 1902 adventure film Le voyage dans la Lune a group of lunar explorers is attacked and brought before the king of the Moon’s subterranean...
July 2021
Designing for life in outer space - The importance of design for long-term space missions
... 2020 showed that space architecture and design already drive the private space industry. SpaceX wanted a voyage in Crew Dragon to be an enjoyable experience for its passengers. The black-and-white ultramodern design of the capsule...
October 2021
Space in the movies – lessons for spacefarers
.... Apollo 13 is very much worth watching because it effectively shows three points of particular interest to would-be space voyagers. First, space is tremendously inhospitable and, for now at least, living conditions are likely to be claustrophobic...
February 2022
A manifesto for Europe in space
... (Jupiter, Io and Ganymede) and September 1996 (Europa). The portrait of Callisto 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...
