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...
13 May 2019
New study suggests Moon is still tectonically active
...’t particularly keen on. Of the 28 quakes captured by seismometers, some that were recorded in the last 5 years of the Apollo missions registered up to 5.5 on the Richter scale. Back on Earth, a quake of this magnitude is energetic enough to crack...
28 January 2019
Oldest Earth rocks found on the Moon
... find has been uncovered by an international team of scientists who had been studying a lunar sample returned by the Apollo 14 astronauts from their mission 48 years ago. The 2 gram fragment of rock, which is a possible relic from the...
