Aluminium and humankind’s passion to explore ‘Space’ – the final frontier
08 Oct 2021When William Shatner, as Captain James T. Kirk, gave the legendary description of his starship Enterprise’s mission to explore ‘space: the final frontier’ in Star Trek, little did anyone foresee that those words would be etched in pop culture history. Throughout evolution, humankind has gazed up at the skies. From reverently praying to it, to sending satellites and spaceships to explore the various mysteries of the universe, exploring the final...
Aluminium, Flying You Around The Earth & Beyond
15 Apr 2021Aluminium has long sparked the imagination of humankind’s quest to explore the space beyond Earth. In fact, Jules Gabriel Verne, the renowned French novelist credited with stories like ‘Around the World in Eighty Days’, ‘20,000 Leagues Under the Sea’ and ‘Journey to the Centre of the Earth’, wrote of man setting sail to the moon in an aluminium spaceship. The Wright brothers’ ‘Flyer I’, the first steerable flying apparatus flew...
