December 2021
All for one and one for all – recommendations for a sustainable future in lunar exploration
...the sights of spacefaring nations around the world as the next target of crewed exploration, those inspired as children by Apollo - and their children - will likely seek to establish a persistent human presence on the lunar surface. Early discussions...
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 ...
04 October 2015
ESTEC opens its doors, 9,000 hi-res Apollo photos go online, and other news from the weekend
... the flag. Hi-res versions of 9,200 photographs of the Apollo missions have been posted online, offering many unprecedented and often ...Got a spare $50,000? That’s the minimum bid for Apollo 15 commander David Scott’s Bulova watch, the only personal ...
September 2016
Transforming US space policy
... of space, they think of the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union, the Apollo programme, Space Shuttle launches, the International Space Station; all high profile human exploration programmes carried...
