February 2022
A new legal system for space
... would have seemed impossible! Yet this is where we find ourselves today. As evidenced by the limited take-up of NASA’s Artemis Accords (see ROOM #28, 2021), it is no longer as easy to get universal acceptance for space-related laws as it was in 1967...
May 2022
China’s international collaboration in space: an evolving approach from the Middle Kingdom
... anytime soon, but the country signed up to the US-led Artemis Accords in June 2021. Meanwhile, its neighbour Australia, having founded...its own space agency just four years ago, signed with Artemis in late 2020. As these new space agencies assess ...
May 2024
Out of this world – NASA’s textile technicians and innovations for space voyages
...) spacesuit, intended to be used for the first time on the Artemis III mission to the Moon in 2026 at the earliest. For the...selected Axiom Space to develop the next generation spacesuit for the Artemis III mission to the Moon in 2026. To face this...
May 2025
A time zone for the Moon
... strategy”. An artist’s impression showing the full configuration of NASA’s lunar gateway. In the coming years, as part of the Artemis programme [see box on page 89], NASA plans to send astronauts to the Moon and create a scientific base on the...
April 2026
Apollo lunar rover - the Lego version
... by Mark Williamson on “Lego’s replica space programme” in Issue 24, Summer 2020, and “Lego tribute to NASA’s SLS and Artemis” in Issue 36, Spring 2025. About the author Mark Williamson is an independent Space Technology Consultant and writer, and...
November 2026
Seeing Earth differently - The Dorothy Project and its search for the Overview Effect
... the same as understanding, and that the Overview Effect, as White and Sagan and the Apollo and Artemis astronauts all separately describe it, is not really an aesthetic experience, it is a structural one. It rearranges the relationship between the...
