January 2021
Developing the economy of a space nation
... AMPs successfully gained the votes they needed in the Parliamentary by-election to win a seat. For the first time in our ... full compliment of 150 AMPs in our State legislature. The AMPs-elect did not vote on proceedings at this Sitting, but after a ...
March 2016
Space Oddities: The Problem with Imagination
... to continue his work and resigned from the Air Force in 1966. Middle right: Joan Higginbotham was elected as an astronaut candidate by NASA in April 1996 and flew as a mission specialist on STS-116 Space Shuttle Discovery in December...
March 2016
Time for European visionary goals
... 55th anniversary of his historic spaceflight was celebrated on 12 April They looked into the future, well beyond election campaigns and popularity polls. Thanks to the foundations laid in the middle of the 20th century we have enjoyed...
August 2016
Are the days of innovation in global space over - or just beginning?
... people in regards to space? Public spending on space requires public support - politicians are accountable to the public at times of election, and although space may appear to be minor aspect of public policy, it can be costly. we should note that...
September 2016
Life in the extremes: confessions of an astrobiologist
... Space University and as a consultant for NewSpace companies before returning to my home country Slovakia. There I was eventually elected chair of the Slovak Organisation for Space Activities (SOSA), which designed and constructed the first Slovak...
January 2017
Elon Musk and Mars - looking for a snowball effect
..., and which can only ever be visited by a tiny elite of government specialists, a sort of ethically pure knighthood of the elect, on missions which, in the familiar phrase, “take only photographs, leave only footprints”. Two ways to colonise Mars...
