March 2016
Mining outer space may be cool but is it legal?
In November 2015 the United States, passed the US Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act (HR 2262), which includes Title IV - ‘Space Resource Exploration and Utilization’. Section 402 adds Section 51303 to the US space law code. A United States...
September 2016
Moon or Mars - how logical is NASA’s next step?
.... Musk himself called it a “critical achievement” for the humankind’s future in space, citing it as a first step towards the colonisation of Mars. Similarly, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin was the first to succeed in landing a complete rocket back in 2015...
July 2017
Rapidly evolving space industry needs faster UN response
... business rationales remain thriving in private sector? How to address the future of space exploration visions such as colonisation of other planets or asteroid mining should they become reality? What kind of regulatory model will safeguard unlimited...
January 2018
Cosmic cocktails and galactic moonshine
... yeast viability in space may have consequences and clinical applications for the future of space exploration and colonisation.” Beer-loving students are not the only ones thinking about the prospects of producing drinks in space...
January 2018
Shielding the human genome
... knew that left unanswered, the threat posed by space radiation could dash the hopes of humans ever colonising the solar system. Emboldened by hundreds of scientific and medical innovations, and with billions of dollars worth of previous...
February 2018
Our space future lies in innovation
... people to Mars and then return them. They don’t speak about sending 1,000 people on a one-way colonisation trip. French President Emmanuel Macron was welcomed to the Guiana Space Centre (CSG) in French Guiana at the...
