January 2021
Time to change our relationship with space?
...spaceflight traps us in an old narrative. Yet many cite Apollo as sparking our relationship with our fragile Earth – the...40 years in the space sector I will always be a spacegeek and Apollo remains part of my story, but it is the vision of partnership...
April 2020
Is space poised to take another giant leap?
... required to kick-start a new off-Earth economy, just as the US Government’s construction of the Internet, in the time of Apollo, accelerated commercial economic growth, that, in the 1990s, allowed Bezos to transform global commerce with Amazon. The...
January 2019
Space for Art – Love letter to Earth
... the connection back to ourselves - to home. There is no better example of this than the ‘Earthrise’ moment experienced by the Apollo 8 crew on 24 December 1968, awestruck by the beauty of their home planet rising above the desolate lunar horizon...
April 2019
Protecting our lunar legacy
...weeks later after a series of manoeuvres en route. What an Apollo site may look like today. Judgement of history The GLXP ... former hard or soft landings, including the Surveyors, the Apollo sites, Russian, Chinese, Japanese and European sites. There ...
October 2020
Space 2069 - back to the Moon, to Mars and beyond
...Moon landing. Celebrations of the 100th anniversary of the landing of Apollo 11 on the Moon were subdued at the International Mars Base ...planned for and appreciated Unlike the Sea of Tranquillity where Apollo 11 landed near the Moon’s equator, it is ...
May 2024
Out of this world – NASA’s textile technicians and innovations for space voyages
... panels of fabric with 3.5 miles (5.6 km) of thread using Singer sewing machines. A scientific marvel of that era was the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC). This computer was as small as a briefcase and portable, had a keyboard, and astronauts could...
