May 2017
India confirms commercial launch intent
... that the organisation will continue to collaborate with the Indian space agency whatever the policy of US President Donald Trump! So the days ahead will see 104 and counting. ISRO is most definitely in the ascendency and promises...
October 2018
Sustainable ways of living on the Moon and Mars
... system concept and its functions. The need for ISRU In his 2017 Space Policy Directive 1, US President Donald Trump announced that the USA would return to the Moon for the first time since the Apollo...
November 2019
Strategic role of government in space commercialisation
...regulations and the use of a variety of economic policy instruments. Of course, this is all contingent on funding. President Donald Trump, watched by representatives of Congress and the US National Space Council with Apollo astronaut Jack Schmitt and...
03 January 2017
What did 2016 do for us?
... reasons; it saw a paradigm shift in politics across the world from the UK choosing to leave the EU, to the US electing Donald Trump as their next president. It was also the year that saw the passing of many prominent figures in the...
27 March 2019
NASA to land humans on the Moon again by 2024 - but with better fitting spacesuits hopefully
... NASA as far as news goes. The space agency’s Administrator Jim Bridenstine has just announced that ‘President Donald Trump has asked NASA to accelerate US plans to return to the Moon and to land humans on the surface again by 2024...
02 September 2021
Long awaited SLS launch looks likely to slip to mid-2022
... denied the feasibility of a 2024 Moon landing, an intentionally ambitious goal set by the administration of former President Donald Trump. However, in recent weeks a report by the NASA Office of Inspector General said NASA’s lunar spacesuits won...
