October 2024
International space law - the beginning of the end?
... is an effort to achieve welfare for all of humankind in the space domain. After centuries of relentless exploitation and colonisation and two devastating world wars, the international community came together to create institutions and enact laws ...
November 2021
The philosophy of space missions today
... a technological and environmental one. This does not mean, however, that by choosing the scenario of compulsory space colonisation necessary for the survival of humanity (and with us, presumably, all other or selected animal species to be sent into...
October 2023
The multidisciplinary world of space habitation design
... habitat designs about social challenges arising from life on a space station. The dominance of certain companies in space colonisation could reach a ‘quasi-sovereign’ status, which allows them to establish their own rules Sandra Häuplik-Meusburger...
20 October 2016
Asgardia: The New Space Nation
... are nowhere close to reaching the red planet. Having a few robotic contraptions on Mars, does not amount to colonisation or habitation. It actually points to the contrary. The table below serves to illustrate the reality-fantasy disconnect and...
July 2014
Space 1.0 to Space 3.0: from Gagarin to market growth
...The development of cosmic science? Protection against asteroids? Colonising the Moon or Mars? Perhaps the search for alien...that he can live there. Bringing back those who go to colonise Mars can be left until later; possibly this would become possible...
June 2015
The new space ethics: COSPAR, Planetary Protection and beyond
...technology does not yet exist to an appropriate standard of certainty and reliability: terraforming of alien biospheres, the physical colonisation of other planets and the ability to mine, refine and return minerals and resources from other celestial...
