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Teddy bears lifted to 30,085 metres above sea level on a helium balloon in a materials experiment by CU Spaceflight and SPARKS science club. Each of the bears wore a different space suit designed by 11-13 year olds from SPARKS.

Space technology is technology that is related to entering, and retrieving objects or life forms from space.^[1]

"Every day" technologies such as weather forecasting, remote sensing, GPS systems, satellite television, and some long distance communications systems critically rely on space infrastructure. Of sciences astronomy and Earth sciences (via remote sensing) most notably benefit from space technology.

Computers and telemetry were once leading edge technologies that might have been considered "space technology" because of their criticality to boosters and spacecraft. They existed prior to the Space Race of the Cold War (between the USSR and the USA.) but their development was vastly accelerated to meet the needs of the two major superpowers' space programs. While still used today in spacecraft and missiles, the more prosaic applications such as remote monitoring (via telemetry) of patients, water plants, highway conditions, etc. and the widespread use of computers far surpasses their space applications in quantity and variety of application.

Space is such an alien environment that attempting to work in it requires new techniques and knowledge. New technologies originating with or accelerated by space-related endeavors are often subsequently exploited in other economic activities. This has been widely pointed to as beneficial by space advocates and enthusiasts^[who?] favoring the investment of public funds in space activities and programs. Political opponents^[who?] counter that it would be far cheaper to develop specific technologies directly if they are beneficial and scoff at this justification for public expenditures on space-related research.^{[citation needed]}

Specific space technology[link]

• Ablative heat shield
• Aerobot (Planetary probe suspended in atmosphere.)
• Atmospheric braking
• Booster See also ICBM
• Centrifuge
• Gantry
• Human staffed missions
• Rocket sled
• Lunar Rover
• Mars Rover
• Satellite
  • Communication satellite
  • Earth observation satellite
  • Navigation satellite
  • Satellite television
  • Telecommunications satellite

Future space technologies[link]

• Asteroid mining
• Single stage to orbit
• Solar power satellite
• Non-rocket spacelaunch
• Space manufacturing

See also[link]

• Centennial Challenges NASA prize contests
• Exploration of Mars
• Human spaceflight
• Space exploration
• Space architecture
• Space colonization
• Space industry
• Space industry of Russia
• Timeline of artificial satellites and space probes

References[link]

External links[link]

• Race2Space.org - Advancing the Privatization of Space Travel 2006, Race2Space, in partnership with the X Prize foundation, is seeking sponsorship in order to support the privatization of space travel, research, and exploration for the upcoming Lunar Landing Challenge Contestants October 2006."
• Space Shuttle - News and features about NASA research, aimed at the general public. Includes sections on astronomy, space science, beyond rocketry, living in space

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Albert John Owen (1890–1966), known as Harrison Owen, was an Australian playwright, novelist, poet, and journalist.

Career[link]

Owen became a prolific contributor of poetry and local news articles to The Bulletin from 1912 to 1919. From the basis of his earlier work, the chief of editing for the Melbourne Herald J. E. Davidson appointed him as the newspaper's drama critic and author of the Peerybingle Papers, a regular mixture of light verse and prose. Soon afterwards he took over its Under the Clocks column.

Although Owen spent most of his life as a daily journalist, his creative flair was never jeopardized. Throughout his life he published most of his poetic writings and stories. His first novel The Mount Marunga Mystery was published in 1919. He released a collective of his satirical and verse poetry from The Bulletin in 1923, entitled Tommyrot Rhymes for Children and Grown-ups who Ought to Know Better.

With many of his Bulletin workmates, Owen co-founded the now defunct Australian Authors' and Writers' Guild in 1915.

From 1920, Owen moved to London and worked as a freelance journalist. From 1921 to 1932 he worked as a leader-writer for the Daily Sketch and also produced a weekly feature for John Bull until 1940. In this period he was active as a dramatist. The first of his three plays to be performed in London, The Gentleman in Waiting (1925) arrived with a mixed response—reviews varied from 'witty' and 'diverting' to 'prolix' and 'banal', with a general consensus that the piece was over-literary. His second play, The Happy Husband (1927), with Charles Laughton and Madge Titheradge was very successful and subsequently toured to New York, Paris and Vienna. In 1931, the play was filmed as Uneasy Virtue. Owen's next play, Doctor Pygmalion (1932), with Ronald Squire and Gladys Cooper, was also a success and productions in Melbourne, Sydney and Amsterdam followed its London season. In 1940 Owen published The Playwright's Craft.

Owen returned to Melbourne in 1940. His regular reviews for the Melbourne Herald reflected both his passion for the theatre and his intimate knowledge of its workings. He became a leader-writer for The Sun News-Pictorial and wrote a Saturday column, Merely my Prejudice. At first a witty, anecdotal reflection on human foibles, it came increasingly to express his delight in the uses and abuses of the English language and the depth and diversity of his literary interests. The name of the column, with its nice mixture of diffidence and self-assertion, anticipated the tone, and reflected the writer. Nettie Palmer had written in 1928: 'There was always a curious modesty about Harrison Owen … “I'm just a young man from Geelong”, he used to say'.

He retired in 1955, although he published in the Melbourne Herald in 1957 a series of articles, Down Memory Lane. Predeceased by his wife, and childless, Owen died of Cerebrovascular disease at St Kilda East on 30 May 1966 and was cremated.

Resources[link]

• Harrison Owen on IMDB.com
• Australian Dictionary of Biographies - Harrison Owen