November 2026
Beyond footprints - what Apollo really taught us about becoming a spacefaring civilisation
...humanity stands on the threshold of returning to the Moon. Yet amid the renewed excitement and spectacle surrounding Artemis, commercial launch systems and lunar ambitions, an uncomfortable question lingers: did Apollo actually teach us how to become...
06 November 2019
Boeing's ‘fewest steps to the Moon’ proposal for NASA’s Human Lander
NASA’s call to industry asking American companies to provide an integrated human landing system for the agency’s Artemis lunar exploration programme, has been answered by space manufacturing giant Boeing with a design that specifies it will ...
October 2025
What future for UK human spaceflight?
... to 17 ESA’s broader ambitions extend to deep space, notably through the Terrae Novae programme and participation in NASA’s Artemis initiative. ESA is supplying critical components for lunar missions, including the European Service Modules (ESMs) for...
22 July 2021
Factory of the future for Orion capsules
...its Colorado factory and assembled the capsules for the Artemis 1 and Artemis 2 test flights to lunar orbit and back, uncrewed...and equipment. Lockheed Martin delivered the Orion vehicle for Artemis 1 to NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems personnel in ...
02 July 2019
Orion spacecraft's launch abort test completed successfully
... building the most powerful rocket in the world to send astronauts to the Moon in the Orion spacecraft for Artemis missions,” said Bill Hill, deputy associate administrator for Exploration Systems Development at NASA Headquarters in Washington. “With...
19 March 2021
NASA conducts successful test of its massive SLS Moon rocket
...as a hot fire, is a critical milestone ahead of the agency’s Artemis I mission, which will send an uncrewed Orion spacecraft on a test ... the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy in preparation for Artemis I. SLS, Orion, and the ground systems at ...
