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Nasa at 60 and the fate of the ISS
Mars Close Approach Mars was 35.8 million miles from Earth at its closest point this month. Mars won't be that close to Earth until 2287...
Aug 3, 20187 min read


Rocket Man - Alan Bond
Alan Bond is a legendary English mechanical and aerospace engineer of Reaction Engines Ltd, Project Daedalus, Blue Streak, HOTOL, Skylon,...
Jun 22, 20183 min read

Zubrin's Propellant-less Propulsion
I shuddered when I saw a crimson flame through the porthole instead of the usual starry sky at the night horizon of the planet. Vast...
Jun 14, 20183 min read

Helicopter on Mars
“Some segments of this book may be rough going. That's the nature of real science. It requires thought. Sometimes deep thought. But...
Jun 2, 20184 min read


Block5Heads
And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die, Lift not your hands to It for help — for It As...
May 18, 20183 min read


Podcast 79 - The Goonhilly Visit and Magnetospheres on Spaceships
Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant...
May 4, 20189 min read


Electric Eye in the Sky
This is the goal: To make available for life every place where life is possible. To make inhabitable all worlds as yet uninhabitable, and...
Apr 28, 20183 min read

Lonely Robot, Space Rocks and Diamonds
“We do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples.” Every...
Apr 18, 20184 min read
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