September 2023
India signs up to the Artemis Accords
... fourth country to achieve a lunar soft landing. The name (in Greek mythology Artemis was the twin sister of Apollo) and the underlying intent of an international, peaceful and sustainable future in space, was originally inspired by the fictional...
September 2017
Europe needs facility to handle extra-terrestrial space material
... to minimise the samples’ alteration. Overview of Johnson Space Center’s Lunar Curation Laboratory, equipped with gloveboxes dedicated to Apollo sample return missions. Note the windows at the end of the room, separating the high cleanliness part...
August 2019
Lessons from the Sun
...days of summer 1972 saw NASA personnel preparing for the final Apollo mission to the Moon, to be launched in December 1972...convened a workshop to decide how to deal with the planned Apollo 17 Moon mission, should McMath Region 11976 reappear, and, ...
October 2020
Is NASA’s Artemis Accords agreement Moon-proof?
... programme. In Greek mythology Artemis was the twin-sister of Apollo, so the name is a neat link back to the ...space debris. The Accords seeks to protect historical locations like the Apollo landing sites. In parallel, a concept defined as ‘safety ...
January 2023
Space sustainability imperative
...spacecraft and orbital debris. This self-confessed ‘child of the Apollo generation’ and Chair of the Steering Board for the Global .... I am of the generation that has caused the mess, the Apollo generation, and we can say we didn’t know any better at ...
October 2026
Stitching the Moonwalker – how AI, seamstresses and Prada are reinventing the spacesuit
... components into a suit an astronaut can live and work in. Apollo’s first lunar spacesuits were scientific marvels of that era. They were...are cut The AxEMU is a major advancement over the Apollo suit which hindered motion. The new suit was redesigned...
