All Astronautical Evolution posts in 2022:
Is Private Space Travel Environmentally Responsible? (April)
How Will the First Astronauts on Mars Spend Their Time? (February)
All Astronautical Evolution posts in 2021:
Questions for Human Analogue Simulators of Mars (December)
Black Arrow and Prospero Fifty Years On (October)
The Inspiration4 Mission Begins to Fill In the Bottom of the Transport Pyramid (September)
Are Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos and their clients real astronauts? (August)
Planetopolis in an Age of Climate Change (July)
Planetopolis (January)
All Astronautical Evolution posts in 2020:
Stellar Engines (August)
Voyage to the Large Magellanic Cloud (July)
Why the Human Exploration of Space? (May)
Artificial Gravity for the Journey to Mars and Return (April)
Cruising in Space (March)
All Astronautical Evolution posts in 2019:
The Destiny of Civilisations – Fire, Iron and Gold (November)
The Destiny of Civilisations – A Problem for SETI (November)
The Holy Grail of Space (October)
Return to the Moon, 50 Years On (August)
The Case for Interstellar Flight (June)
SpaceX Dragon 2 Success (April)
Killing the Doomsday Fallacy (Feb.)
All Astronautical Evolution posts in 2018:
How Far Can We Take the Copernican Principle? (Dec.)
Dawkins and the McGraths: a Biologist versus two Theologians (Nov.)
The Atheism Question (Oct.)
The Religion Question (Sept.)
I, Starship (June)
All Astronautical Evolution posts in 2017:
Scenario Block Diagram Analysis of the Galactic Evolution of Life (Nov.)
Comments by Alex Tolley (Oct.)
Elon Musk’s “Great Martian” (Oct.)
Elon Musk’s Mars Plans: Highlights from His Second Iteration (Sept.)
What is a Supercivilisation? (Aug.)
Quantifying the Assumptions Behind the METI Debate (July)
Five Principles of a Sustainable Manned Mars Programme (June)
Pale Red Dot: Mars comes to Oxford (May)
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AE posts:
2022: What’s to do on Mars?…
2021: New space company Planetopolis…
2020: Cruising in Space…
2019: The Doomsday Fallacy, SpaceX successes…
2018: I, Starship, atheism versus religion, the Copernican principle…
2017: Mars, Supercivilisations, METI…
2016: Stragegic goal for manned spaceflight…
2015: The Pluto Controversy, Mars, SETI…
2014: Skylon, the Great Space Debate, exponential growth, the Fermi “paradox”…
2013: Manned spaceflight, sustainability, the Singularity, Voyager 1, philosophy, ET…
2012: Bulgakov vs. Clarke, starships, the Doomsday Argument…
2011: Manned spaceflight, evolution, worldships, battle for the future…
2010: Views on progress, the Great Sociology Dust-Up…
General essays:
Index to essays – including:
Talk presented to students at the International Space University, May 2016
Basic concepts of Astronautical Evolution
Options for Growth and Sustainability
Mars on the Interstellar Roadmap (2015)
The Great Sociology Debate (2011)
Building Selenopolis (2008)
General essays outside the numbered sequence of AE posts
Astronautical Evolution
Mars and the Moon
Environment and Sustainability
Fiction
International Space University
Philosophy
Politics and Sociology
Reviews
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