31 July 2019
GLEE mission aims to send 500 LunaSats to the Moon
... particles in Jupiter and Saturn’s rings move when exposed to electromagnetic forces. “As we all celebrate the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, let us tell the world we are going to the moon with a new mission conducted by students from countries...
September 2017
Australia’s unique space history
...space activities in their global context. Its exhibits include an Apollo 16 Moon rock and the unique Zero G Space Lab, ...’s second generation of tracking stations The section on the Apollo missions includes the largest lunar sample on public display in...
February 2019
Simulating lunar and martian regolith in the laboratory
... drill and analytical capabilities of the rover in preparation for its activities on Mars. Orange soil found during Apollo 17 is believed to have been created by volcanic processes early in the Moon’s history. Alongside the ExoMars applications, some...
July 2020
Lego’s replica space programme
... Photo Library. Note on pricing Prices depend on regional markets and, to some extent, on availability. For example, the Apollo Saturn V kit (item 21309) cost £109.99 when released in 2017, but is no longer available in the UK (although it sells...
28 January 2026
Back to the Moon with Artemis
... exploration. So, in that sense, the mission is closer to Apollo 8, which looped around the Moon in December 1968. NASA’s ... This is much like the figure-of-eight trajectory followed by Apollo 8, except that the latter orbited the Moon 10 times before...
February 2019
Building a space museum from scratch
...around. Luckily, I struck gold. Colour TV camera flown on Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in 1975. One thing about NASA and ... camera, this time a Hasselblad used in training for the Apollo lunar astronauts. An elegant Lladro ceramic statue of a US astronaut...
