19 July 2019
The day humanity walked on the Moon
... down the chance to head NASA’s final mission of the Apollo program – Apollo 17 – as its commander; the position instead went to ...ventured back to pick up where they left off; shortly after Apollo 11, Armstrong announced that he did not plan to fly in...
30 January 2017
Orion engineers test for vibrations and SLS completes a major review
... tests at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. The Orion spacecraft is similar to NASA’s Apollo capsule but will carry up to six astronauts instead of three (as Apollo did) but its purpose is long-haul flight. The spacecraft will serve...
13 September 2016
Scientists prove the Moon was created by a vaporised Earth
... of the Earth and Moon. However in 2001, a revelation occurred as Moon rock samples brought back from the Apollo missions in the 1970s were found to contain nearly identical isotopic compositions when compared to terrestrial rocks. This...
12 December 2017
Trump signs Space Policy Directive 1
... when Trump became President. Perhaps poignantly, the signing of the directive was timed to coincide with the Apollo 17 mission – the last mission when humans walked on the Moon. “Exactly 45 years ago, almost to the minute...
23 February 2018
UK to host world’s first commercial deep-space communications station
...-communication site located in Cornwall, UK that was once used to beam iconic images to TV viewers of events such as the Apollo 11 Moon landing, will help create the world’s first commercial deep-space communications station, capable of tracking...
11 October 2018
Apollo Program Development Plan
...structure”. The volume is a facsimile of NASA’s plan for Apollo dated 15 January 1965, which comprises 17 sections and a ...reported to Kennedy Space Center. Most people consider the Apollo programme a triumph of engineering and technology, which indeed...
