October 2026
Stitching the Moonwalker – how AI, seamstresses and Prada are reinventing the spacesuit
... accumulated further expertise in performance gear through projects like the Linea Rossa range created for the Luna Rossa America’s Cup sailing team. Prada designed the clothing and gear to endure saltwater spray, high...
09 August 2016
Yutu, the Chinese Moon Rover, Dies on the Moon
...'s data gathering helped discover a new type of basalt, different from samples found by Apollo astronauts and the Luna landers. Its ground-penetrating radar was able to scan under the lunar surface and locate a top...
10 December 2018
First far side of the Moon mission underway
...'s light). The first grainy pictures to reveal scant details of the surface were first taken by the Soviet Luna 3 spacecraft back in 1959. Less than a decade later in 1968, astronauts aboard the Apollo 8 spacecraft became the...
23 November 2020
China's lunar sample return mission to launch tonight
... mission in more than four decades – the last undertaking was achieved by the former Soviet Union's unmanned Luna-24 mission, which brought back to Earth 170.1 grams of Moon rock and debris in August 1976. Chang’e 5 was...
03 October 2021
European-Russian Space Cooperation
... Jodrell and the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory. Unfortunately, the British-Russian “romance” ended in February 1966 when Luna 9’s first photos of the Moon were received by Jodrell Bank and published in the following day’s Daily Express...
