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The Eden Project and Mars Settlement
On our travels last week, we decided to stop off at the Eden Project down near St. Austell in Cornwall for a few hours. It’s been one of those places I’ve always wanted to visit, especially since my...
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How Long Would it Take to Travel to Proxima Centauri?
This is one of those articles I’ve been meaning to write for a long time: How long would the interstellar transit be from Earth to the nearest star (and no, I don’t mean the Sun)? It turns out that...
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Interview with World of Weird Things: Colonizing Space, at a Profit
A manned outpost, could be a reality if the business opportunities are there. This morning I had a thought-provoking interview with Greg Fish, owner and writer for the superb website World of Weird...
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The Link Between Beer and the Colonization of Space
A Japanese brewery has successfully produced 100 litres of Space Beer. Hurrah! The beer won’t actually be consumed in space (which seems a shame somehow), but it was made totally from barley grown on...
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The Space Exploration Crisis
President-elect Barack Obama has some big challenges to confront when he takes office in January. Let's hope it's not to the detriment to the US space agency When you look up on a starry night, what do...
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When the Space Hotel’s a Rockin’…
Guest article by Greg Fish (blog: world of weird things) You can’t go on vacation any more without your video camera, especially if you’re going some place spectacular and exciting. When the new wave...
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Welcome to my Sinkhole, Premium Martian Real Estate
A sinkhole in Tractus Fossae, created by tectonic activity (HiRISE/NASA) It might not look like much from space, but this depression in the Martian landscape might be considered to be a priceless...
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Moon Water, Confirmed
The biggest factor hanging over human settlement of other worlds is the question of water. We need it to drink, we need it to cultivate food, we need it for fuel (indeed, we need it for the first...
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NASA’s Asteroid Mission: Scary but Useful
Things have been moving fast for NASA in recent weeks, culminating in President Obama’s inspiring speech at Kennedy Space Center on Thursday. I haven’t commented on the new direction for the US space...
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Hitching a Ride on an ‘Evolving Asteroid’ to Travel to the Stars
The interstellar asteroid spaceship concept that would contain all the resources required to maintain a generations of star travelers (Nils Faber & Angelo Vermeulen) When ʻOumuamua visited our...
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