November 2016
Moon or Mars - NASA’s next logical step?
On 20 July 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped onto the Moon and accomplished one of the greatest achievements in the history of ...
March 2017
Space for art: Quilting in orbit
... Moon’ quilts here: https://www.flymetothemoon.gallery/art-quilts/ I have vivid personal memory of watching Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin take those first steps on the Moon, and my own memories of excitement about it, of going...
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...
