February 2016
Space – Overcoming Our Limitations
... and the modern science, business and financial structure that enables us to make space settlement a near-future reality, Tumlinson is fascinating. Back at the turn of the 20th century, a pioneer of astronautics theory Konstantin ...
March 2022
What space taught me about water
... designed and built Sustainability Base, which is described as the “first sustainable space settlement” here on Earth. The facility utilises NASA innovations originally engineered for space travel and exploration within the fifty-thousand-square-foot...
June 2022
Sunshades in space could help alleviate Earth’s climate crisis
... membranes could be installed on trusses additively-manufactured in space; these structures can be arbitrarily large since they will...the gravity well into space. Once humans can live sustainably in near-Earth space, settlement farther into the solar...
August 2020
Opportunities for young people in the space sector
... as a “simulation of life in industry”, with students working in ‘companies’ to design a space settlement. In addition to STEM roles, there is a focus on business, marketing and management. A space company, after all, is a business like any other and...
