Space Colonization

Modern Dreams About the Sky and the Earth

By Guest Author on April 4, 2014

Fig. 1 The three-storey space hotel by Sergey Makarov For various reasons, it is not just science fiction writers and dreamers: scientists around... Read more →

Interplanetary Contamination and Extraterrestrial Life4

Cassini-Huygens: Preventing Biological Contamination

By Phillippa Blaber and Angélique Verrecchia on April 3, 2014

In 2017 a spacecraft will plunge through the rings of Saturn and burn up in a fiery denouement in the atmosphere of the gas giant. The probe will... Read more →

Launch

The Shuttle Launch Pad Aborts

By AmericaSpace on April 1, 2014

Close-up view of Discovery’s three main engines—still exhibiting evidence of scorching from their momentary ignition on 26 June 1984—in the... Read more →

Media

Review: Marketing the Moon

By The Spaceflight Group on March 31, 2014

By Jason Rhian Image Credit: MIT Press Details of man’s first foray to another world have been told repeatedly, to the point where they... Read more →

Commercial Spaceflight4

“Doctor, Doctor, Can I Go?” Medical Rules, Standards, and Guidelines for Suborbital Space

By Giugi Carminati on March 28, 2014

This article continues our series Cross-Talk: Space Law in Down-to-Earth English. For prior articles in this series, click here. Companies... Read more →

Rocket Design

Born Again: The Long Story of the Soyuz 2-1v Launcher

By Antoine Amrouni-Keiling on March 26, 2014

The R-7 « Semyorka » (small seven) might be one of the most iconic rockets of all time, scoring above a staggering 1600 launches over five... Read more →