Events

Dr. Michael Waltemathe is senior lecturer in the Department of Protestant Theology at Ruhr-University Bochum in Germany.Michael is also the Co-Principal Investigator for Interstellar Exploration and Society at the Interdisciplinary Center for Interstellar Exploration at the University of California at Santa Barbara.He serves as an officer of the Astrosociology Research Institute and is a founding Read More

In the field of astronomy research, women have made some of the greatest contributions, even when access to the discipline was restricted. For example, a century ago women were enlisted to organize the data collected by new telescopes. It was these women, who were often condemned to only the most repetitive and boring work, who Read More

The transterrestrialist view of the world owns ancient roots, and is very much important today, while big crises are threatening civilization. Dr. Heuser gives a lecture on transterretrialist philosophy through history, and the relevance of a sane negentropic philosophic approach, to sustain humankind evolution into a Solar System civilization, defeating crises and regressive factors. In Read More

If you think artists are useless, try to spend a quarantine period without music, books, poems, movies, paintings and games. The corona virus has changed our organizational structures worldwide. That also has positive aspects. New technologies have received a boost out of the need to maintain communication structures. This can also be an opportunity. Digitization Read More

Perhaps the biggest impact space settlement technology will have on the Earth’s multiple environmental crises is in agriculture. Space habitats will have limited space to produce the food and will need to advance the technology for food production to achieve agriculture self-sufficiency. Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) is the next step in securing the human food Read More

Prof. Johann-Dietrich Wörner -- former Director Generale of European Space Agency, will give a lecture on his vision for civilian space development. Some of the topics he will discuss: 100% reusable launch vehicles -- reducing cost to orbit -- are the 1st milestone in the agenda of Civilian Space Development. Will them be really available Read More

“A greater world is possible!” represents a deep reflection about the state of civilization, some possible futures and the deep moral implications of the great choices that civilization has to make. Very often such choices are driven by the evolution of social and international relationships, rather than by a reasoned and motivated rationale. There is Read More

The Working Group on Space Resources under the United Nations Committee on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UN COPUOS), presents an opportunity for a legally binding instrument to develop under the auspices of the United Nations Committee on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNOOSA), and do so in a manner favorable to space resource utilization Read More