Image courtesy of Euronews. The space race is a common and overly simplistic depiction of the international competition for some great space endeavour. Today’s competition for the moon is also depicted as being a race, when in fact it is a long-term competition over whose… Read More
Senator Bill Nelson, Administrator of NASA. Photograph courtesy of Alex Brandon AP/FILE. In a 1 January 2023 interview with Bryan D. Bender of Politico the NASA Administrator, Senator Bill Nelson, put the politics into Lunapolitics when he warned that the U.S. is in a race… Read More
More than fifty years after the first Apollo Moon landings, we are witnessing the rise of Lunapolitics, where the Moon’s topography – or ‘Lunography’ – from below its surface through to Cislunar space intersects with Earthly political and economic interests. If we manage Lunapolitics sensibly… Read More
