06 March 2019
Growing food from thin air to feed astronauts
... food production with solar energy anywhere,” says Pasi Vainikka, CEO, Solar Foods. Born from a NASA space programme, and further developed by the Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd and the Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT...
08 January 2023
The Light of Earth: reflections on a life in space
... what Al thinks! The book concludes with “Thoughts after a Moon Voyage”, Worden’s views on the point of the space programme and a “Poem from the Far Side of the Moon” (from which the book’s title - The Light...
23 September 2024
Japan in Space: Past, Present and Future
... its “genius engineer” Hideo Itokawa, who is showcased by the author as the “founding father”. It is said that all space programmes have foundation myths, he writes, “typically formed around an original, visionary chief designer”, but few provide...
April 2020
Is space poised to take another giant leap?
...mission, pushed for by the country’s then president, Abdul Kalam, a former aerospace engineer and father of India’s space programme. Chandrayaan-1 was designed to look for signs of water ice, long thought to have accumulated in the Moon’s permanently...
August 2020
Scorpion – a study of the possible
... only was the Scorpion technically feasible, it was also financially feasible in the context of actual space programmes undertaken in the last half century. With hindsight, the Scorpion study suggests that the late 1960s ...
January 2022
International cooperation - the key to survival on Earth and in space
...The European Commission today has many space programmes, the most important being Copernicus and Galileo, ... decision to take people with limited physical abilities to space? ESA has a diversity programme for the entire workforce and aims to be an ...
