April 2020
Is space poised to take another giant leap?
... about to be outpaced by the ‘roaring twenties’ of NewSpace? In the years following his return from Tranquillity Base, Neil Armstrong occasionally reflected upon the parallels of the Moon with the island of Taiwan. Visible on the Pacific horizon...
April 2019
Scanning the skies for exoplanets
..., perhaps due to cooler host stars, magnetic fields or some other mechanism we don’t yet understand,” said David Armstrong, a planetary scientist at the University of Warwick in the UK, who helped discover HD219666 b. Smaller in size than the more...
May 2024
Out of this world – NASA’s textile technicians and innovations for space voyages
... An ideal example of sewing activity from NASA’s history is the Apollo 11 mission where the survival of astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins was literally ‘in the hands’ of talented seamstresses. NASA trained its seamstresses...
01 October 2019
Moonfire: the epic journey of Apollo 11
... also a double-page spread of the only still of Armstrong on the surface, which features him working in the shadow...saunter of athletes”; Aldrin “talked like a hardworking drill”; Armstrong was “apparently in communion with some string in the universe ...
September 2017
Australia’s unique space history
... actually brought the world the television images of Neil Armstrong stepping onto the lunar surface, before the rest of... Creek tracking station that received the television signals of Armstrong’s first steps on the Moon, now a heritage monument...
January 2018
Space nation's first orbiting satellite
...and appointing ministers and justices. To paraphrase world famous astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first person to walk on the Moon, the launch of...satellite prior to its launch. Much has changed since Armstrong first stepped on the Moon in 1969 when the ...
