January 2018
NASA’s space police wield full force of law
... a valuable Apollo 11 lunar rock that she said her late husband had received from astronaut Neil Armstrong. In 1973, the US distributed a small speck of lunar material extracted during the Apollo missions as a goodwill gift to 135...
July 2018
America’s ‘dream machine’
... design certification phase, which included atmospheric flight tests of the Dream Chaser Engineering Test Article at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in California. Lindsey is also responsible for launch, orbit operations, entry and landing...
August 2018
Flying to the stars
...Long, D. Fries, N. Perakis, A. Genovese, S. Zeidler, M. Langer, R. Osborne, R. Swinney, J. Davies, B. Cress, M. Casson, A. Mann, and R. Armstrong, “The Andromeda Study: A Femto-Spacecraft Mission to Alpha Centauri,” Aug. 2017. 3 C. Smith, “Estimation...
October 2018
Developing wearable technologies for space and Earth
... Wearable Robotics Laboratory, in collaboration with Rice University, has developed the Soft Wearable Upper Extremity Garment (or ‘Armstrong’) which can activate the shoulder and elbow joints using a Bowden cable transmission system. Integrating this...
June 2019
Asgardia’s parliament – a year of progress
.... By contrast, one year on, Asgardia does not regard Christopher Columbus, the Wright Brothers, Yuri Gagarin or Neil Armstrong as actors in an odyssey which ended around 1972. We think that the narrative in which they starred must go on to the...
July 2019
Who owns outer space?
.... It could also be said that we were impossibly idealistic when Yuri Gagarin orbited the Earth and Neil Armstrong took his famous steps. So why should we not reach higher than a free-for-all framework for...
