September 2017
Australia’s unique space history
...the television images of Neil Armstrong stepping onto the lunar surface, before the rest of the Apollo 11 ...stations The section on the Apollo missions includes the largest lunar sample on public display in Australia. The original antenna from...
26 February 2018
A Sky Wonderful with Stars – 50 years of modern astronomy on Maunakea
... in mentioning the training of Apollo astronauts in the islands’ moonlike landscapes and, more recently, the testing of lunar sampling robots; a photo shows a strange, unidentified rover with internally sprung wheels and a body like a dodgem. But...
17 May 2021
China's Zhurong rover touches down on Mars
... include putting the first section of the country's permanent space station into orbit, returning the first lunar samples to Earth in more than four decades and completing a global navigation satellite network. "Each and every step...
