All items are by Stephen Ashworth, unless attributed to another named contributor.
Artificial intelligence and robotics (Back to top)
Britain (Back to top)
- Brexit! Thoughts on the UK Referendum Result (1 July 2016)
- Comments to Britain Takes the Wrong Approach to Manned Spaceflight (10 December 2015)
- Britain Takes the Wrong Approach to Manned Spaceflight (10 December 2015)
- A Letter to Britain’s New Space Minister (1 June 2015)
- To the Rt Hon Greg Clark (1 October 2014)
- Britain’s Major Tim defends the ISS against its critics (1 March 2014)
- Reaching for the stars: liftoff for the Shard! (1 April 2012)
- UK Space Conference – latest news (1 June 2011, item 2)
- A date for your diary: the UK Space Conference and the Sir Arthur Clarke awards (1 May 2011, item 2)
- Dr David Williams speaks at the Royal Aeronautical Society (1 October 2010, item 4)
- Dear Mr Willetts…: a letter from Stephen Ashworth (2 June 2010)
- Welcome to the UK Space Agency (5 April 2010, item 1)
- A vote for a Royal British Space Agency, by Robert Law (1 March 2010, item 3)
- Two cheers for the British Space Agency! (3 January 2010, item 3)
- An event for your diary next year: the UK Space Conference (1 December 2009, item 5)
- Second British national astronaut chosen! (1 June 2009, item 1)
- Space campaigning in the UK, by Andrew Lound (1 June 2009, item 2)
- Britain and space: Lord Drayson’s view (6 May 2009, item 1)
British Interplanetary Society (Back to top)
Ecology and sustainability (Back to top)
European Space Agency (Back to top)
Extraterrestrial life and SETI (Back to top)
Interstellar spaceflight (Back to top)
Law beyond Earth (Back to top)
Manned spaceflight annual summary (Back to top)
Mars (Back to top)
Miscellaneous groups, activities and commentary (Back to top)
- The personal satellite has arrived! (1 November 2011, item 1)
- Tumlinson’s challenge for NewSpace (1 August 2011, item 1)
- Space Renaissance International calls for global Apollo holiday, Press Release by Walter Putnam (1 August 2011, item 2)
- Space poem celebrates Apollo 11’s 42nd anniversary (1 August 2011, item 3)
- Cartoon of the month: can Spirit come home now? (1 May 2011, item 5)
- Best of the blogs (1 February 2011, item 2)
- Space cartoon of the month (1 February 2011, item 3)
- Call to MiniSpaceWorld Design Contest 2010, by Tibor Pacher (31 May 2010, item 2)
- What the new focus on commercial manned space means, quote from Rick Tumlinson (1 February 2010, item 2)
- Rick Tumlinson’s vision of the frontier movement (1 February 2010, item 4)
- Latest on Space.co.uk (3 January 2010, item 4)
- Space.co.uk up for auction (1 December 2009, item 4)
- And finally: this month sees anniversary of Apollo 11 Moon landing… (1 December 2009, item 6)
- New space blog (1 August 2009, item 2)
- The Space Renaissance Initiative, by Adriano Autino (12 April 2009, item 1)
- Summary of the Space Renaissance Initiative press conference, held in London on 31 March 2009, by Michael Martin-Smith (12 April 2009, item 2)
- The Yuri’s Foundation proposal by John J. Leonard, report by Stephen Ashworth (12 April 2009, item 3)
- Pamphleteering “Space: key to the future?” (12 April 2009, item 4)
Moon (Back to top)
NASA (Back to top)
- Return to the Moon, 50 Years On (1 August 2019)
- “Drowning in Process” (1 November 2015)
- Britain’s Major Tim defends the ISS against its critics (1 March 2014)
- Rand Simberg on Neil Armstrong (1 September 2012, item 3)
- The ISS: ten years of life in space, but a long way to reach sustainability (1 November 2010, item 2)
- Competing visions of space in America reach compromise (1 October 2010, item 1)
- The battle for the soul of space (1 May 2010)
- The ISS Symposium in Berlin (5 April 2010, item 2)
- Ares to be scrapped, commercial space boosted (1 February 2010, item 1)
- What the new focus on commercial manned space means, quote from Rick Tumlinson (1 February 2010, item 2)
- Rick Tumlinson’s vision of the frontier movement (1 February 2010, item 4)
- Time for Obama to make up his mind (1 November 2009, item 3)
- It’s official: Constellation is bankrupt! (1 September 2009, item 1)
- The trouble with NASA (1 August 2009, item 1)
- What future for Constellation, 40 years after Eagle landed at Tranquility Base? (1 July 2009)
- Question: what will be the new direction for NASA? (1 June 2009, item 3)
- US SPACE POLICY – from Shuttle/Station to Constellation:
FOR: Griffin defends US space policy and Moon architecture (1 March 2009, item 1)
- AGAINST: Why am I sceptical about US space policy? (1 March 2009, item 2)
Neubrandenburg space conference (Back to top)
Outer planets (Back to top)
Philosophy (Back to top)
- Killing the Doomsday Fallacy (1 February 2019)
- How Far Can We Take the Copernican Principle? (30 December 2018)
- Technological Singularity, or Plateau? The case for antisingularitarianism (1 March 2013)
- On Certainty and the Limits to Scientific Knowledge: The Doomsday argument versus the human future (1 July 2012)
- The anti-human ideology: Bob Zubrin fights back (1 May 2012, item 3)
- Society between cosmic growth and utopian dreams (1 June 2011, item 1)
- What future for intelligent life in space? (11 April 2011, item 2)
- Does evolution progress? The multi-shell model of life shows how (1 March 2011)
- Towards the Sociology of the Universe? (1 December 2010, item 1)
- The Sociology of the Universe? (1 September 2010, item 1)
- A gloomy view of progress (1 August 2010, item 1)
- Letter to Dr Spencer Wells (1 August 2010, item 2)
- Letter to Scientific American (1 August 2010, item 3)
- But is the heady optimism of the 1960s about to return? (1 September 2009, item 2)
- Darwin and progress to the stars (1 February 2009, item 1)
- On the relationship between Astronautical Evolution and Gaia Theory (1 January 2009, item 2)
Policy of space development (Back to top)
- The Holy Grail of Space (1 October 2019)
- Return to the Moon, 50 Years On (1 August 2019)
- The Pillar versus the Pyramid (1 June 2016)
- The Way Forward (1 May 2016)
- A Strategic Goal for Humanity on Earth and in Space in 2061 (1 January 2016)
- Future growth in space still not being taken seriously (1 December 2014)
- Exponential Growth for Another Thousand Years (1 September 2014)
- The Great Space Debate: Discussion and Vote (1 July 2014)
- The Great Space Debate: What Should Be the Strategic Goal for Astronautics over the Next 25 Years? (1 May 2014)
- Why we must consolidate LEO before venturing further (1 March 2012, item 2)
- Growth Options (1): The Basics of Getting into Space (1 February 2012)
- The battle for the future (1 December 2011)
- Mankind in space: the next fifty years (11 April 2011, item 1)
- The battle for the soul of space (1 May 2010)
- But how sustainable will it be? (3 January 2010, item 2)
- An alternative view of prosperity in space, by Andy Nimmo (1 October 2009, item 2)
- What is the most constructive relationship between the space agency and private enterprise? (6 May 2009, item 2)
- Doubts about government role in space, by Dr Marco C. Bernasconi (6 May 2009, item 3)
- FEEDBACK: Letter on biological evolution and on the economic use of space resources, by Andy Nimmo (1 March 2009, item 3)
Religion (Back to top)
Reviews (Back to top)
Skylon and Reaction Engines (Back to top)
Solar power satellites (Back to top)
SpaceX and Elon Musk (Back to top)
Suborbital spaceflight (Back to top)
Venus (Back to top)