October 2019
Reusability is key to expanding future space launch business
... ever gone into space. Earlier this summer we celebrated the 50th anniversary of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepping on the Moon. Back in 1969, it seemed that by now there would be thousands - if not tens of thousands - of people...
October 2020
Is NASA’s Artemis Accords agreement Moon-proof?
... them and whether they will go far enough. More than 50 years since Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin set foot on the lunar surface, the United States is finally going back and this time it will...
June 2022
Finnish start-up ReOrbit aims to revolutionise space industry
... seven million times the memory - of the Apollo Guidance Computer that put Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the Moon.” While the growth of technological change since the 1960s has been extraordinary on Earth, the...
July 2019
A reluctant American hero
... was overloading the computer’s capabilities. This was due to Aldrin leaving the rendezvous radar switched on, as well as the ...sample number 10003, one of many collected by Armstrong and Aldrin during their EVA and the first to be photographed in ...
February 2022
An interplanetary transportation system
...a continuous ‘Cycler Orbit’ (left), as described by Buzz Aldrin and would operate like a continuous train between Earth and Mars... the Martian surface. In the 1980s, Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin proposed that the cost of Mars missions could be greatly ...
January 2018
Cosmic cocktails and galactic moonshine
... prohibited astronauts from consuming alcohol in space - although this has not always been the case. Buzz Aldrin, the second person to set foot on the Moon, consumed wine as part of a communion ceremony that he performed whilst...
