January 2023
Private space stations and NASA’s effort to re-invent itself
...-astronaut configuration. Had this suggestion, outlined by Professor Norman Augustine at the time, been taken seriously the Artemis programme today might be much further ahead in schedule for a much lower cost. The question is: why was the...
15 May 2019
New funding under fire for Moon 2024 Artemis mission
.... While the prospect of any additional money to boost the agency's Artemis mission should be a good thing, the source of that funding is...request to shift funds from the Pell Grants to the Artemis programme have yet to be approved by Congress, so it ...
01 November 2019
Can Artemis deliver the payload it seeks from the Moon?
As NASA ploughs ahead with returning to the Moon by 2024, a key aspect of the Artemis mission will be to bring something back with them - moon rocks. Lunar samples are worth their weight in ...
July 2021
Collaboration and competition in lunar exploration
...as a central piece in the development of future crewed Mars missions. Numerous initiatives - such as the NASA-led Artemis programme and the Russian-Chinese International Lunar Research Station (ILRS) project - have started to materialise. Under these...
22 October 2019
Bezos announces Blue Moon partnership for lunar landing
... team to offer a human landing system for NASA's Artemis programme to return Americans to the lunar surface by 2024. Speaking...looking forward to working with NASA in support of the Artemis programme." A full scale model of the Blue Moon lunar lander...
01 July 2020
How Earth’s protective magnetic bubble can ‘flap’ over the Moon
... wind blows sideways – suggesting the exposure could occur even more commonly than previously thought. As NASA’s Artemis programme prepares to send new science and technology experiments ahead of a human return, it is essential to understand the area...
