June 2015
Innovation at escape velocity: from NASA’s Apollo to SpaceX
...known example of this was the role played by NASA’s Apollo programme in spurring development of integrated circuits (ICs). The ... including energy, biotech, healthcare, and science.20 The Apollo Guidance computer in place. Recently both NASA and ESA...
August 2016
The promise of space tourism
... the spacecraft entered lunar orbit on Christmas Eve1968. Nothing compares to the actual experience of being in outer space. Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison ‘Jack’ Schmitt’s biggest regret is that he couldn’t have stayed longer on the Moon. “Another day...
November 2016
Emergency dental treatment on way to Mars
... of launch. So far in the history of human spaceflight the occurrence of dental injuries has been minimal. During the US Apollo and Skylab programmes, no dental problems which might have impacted a mission occurred and, though there is no written...
June 2018
Archaeologist of the future
... wave of space entrepreneurs, the so-called ‘Orphans of Apollo’, who couldn’t accept that we went to the Moon...good’ art, the meaning is always open to interpretation. For the Apollo 15 crew who left it there it is part of a universal commemoration...
30 November 2016
German company announce their 'Mission to the Moon' plans
..., has announced plans to revisit the landing site of Apollo 17, 45yrs after the historic mission saw the last human footprints...space.” The team will follow in the footsteps of former Apollo 17 moonwalkers, Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmittare who are ...
02 October 2018
New technique could provide fresh insights into how the Moon was formed
.... It has been nearly 50 years since the crew of the Apollo 12 mission returned to Earth with a crate of rocks plucked from...with fresh, young rocks, but the samples returned by the Apollo astronauts showed that they are in fact nearly 3 billion years...
