April 2020
Is space poised to take another giant leap?
... required to kick-start a new off-Earth economy, just as the US Government’s construction of the Internet, in the time of Apollo, accelerated commercial economic growth, that, in the 1990s, allowed Bezos to transform global commerce with Amazon. The...
January 2019
Space for Art – Love letter to Earth
... the connection back to ourselves - to home. There is no better example of this than the ‘Earthrise’ moment experienced by the Apollo 8 crew on 24 December 1968, awestruck by the beauty of their home planet rising above the desolate lunar horizon...
April 2019
Protecting our lunar legacy
...weeks later after a series of manoeuvres en route. What an Apollo site may look like today. Judgement of history The GLXP ... former hard or soft landings, including the Surveyors, the Apollo sites, Russian, Chinese, Japanese and European sites. There ...
October 2020
Space 2069 - back to the Moon, to Mars and beyond
...Moon landing. Celebrations of the 100th anniversary of the landing of Apollo 11 on the Moon were subdued at the International Mars Base ...planned for and appreciated Unlike the Sea of Tranquillity where Apollo 11 landed near the Moon’s equator, it is ...
July 2020
Trailblazing STEM education
... Our 110,000 square foot facility is home to the Apollo 12 Command Module, the Orion test capsule, a collection of... Stennis Rocket Center: despite what was portrayed in the Hollywood film Apollo 13. “There was no hugging going on upon the capsule’s ...
November 2020
Walking on the Moon
... direct result of government funding and, undeniably, political motivation to claim a ‘first’ in space exploration. As such, following the Apollo 11 and 12 manned lunar landings of 1969, the first teleoperated rover to reach the lunar surface was the...
