January 2022
Earth - no longer humanity’s only home
...1960s, two moments in particular stand out – US President John F Kennedy saying, “We choose to go to the Moon…” and Neil...proving-ground missions. The hardware is fully assembled at the Kennedy Space Center and the booster fully tested and ready to fly...
October 2015
Earth independence: new definitions of home on Mars missions and beyond
...they had the support of a large and capable team at Kennedy Space Center. When astronauts leave planet Mars, they’ll have ...the 1960s, two moments in particular stand out – US President John F Kennedy saying, “We choose to go to the Moon…” and Neil ...
March 2015
JAXA’s challenge to climate change
... Measurement (GPM) core satellite. The US ambassador to Japan, Ms. Caroline Kennedy, made a special statement before the press, saying that her father, President John F. Kennedy, believed that space has the potential to improve people’s lives. GPM...
March 2016
Exploration and cooperation at the heart of European space vision
... of a formal proposal? Not according to Woerner, explaining that such thinking is not comparable to the 1960s when John F Kennedy launched the US on a fast-track and competitive lunar trajectory. “The situation is very different today,” he explains...
September 2023
From the Earth to Mars
... on the Moon but on Mars as well. Wernher von Braun was a visionary who eagerly worked with both John F Kennedy and Adolf Hitler to implement his dreams of rocket travel. He was also a pragmatist who willingly developed the...
