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...
30 September 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 ...
February 2019
Reflections on the future human condition
... Can humanity take such a step? And does it want to? Neil Armstrong’s footprint in the lunar soil photographed during Apollo 11, the first manned...making one giant leap for mankind, Neil Armstrong was clearly not thinking about the transhumanist ...
February 2020
Climate change and spaceports – a difficult balance
...it, irrelevant. There are now 7.7 billion of us; when Neil Armstrong viewed us all from the Moon it was 3.6 billion; and... tourism is an opportunity to embrace Fifty years ago, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the Moon. To get them there...
