July 2019
A reluctant American hero
...become the first man to walk on the Moon. The Apollo 11 Moon landing story and crew commander Neil Armstrong’s ‘reluctant...astronaut, and of his importance as commander of the first Moon landing and its enduring consequences. The 2018 biopic First Man,...
09 December 2020
SpaceIL announce Beresheet 2 will head to the Moon in 2024
... Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, after the countries Beresheet Moon probe crash landed on the lunar surface last year, SpaceIL have...country; along with what is hoped will be a successful Moon landing this time around, the Beresheet 2 mission also hopes ...
30 November 2020
Chang'e 5 separates from spacecraft, prepares for a lunar soft landing
... communication with ground control is normal, CNSA said. The lander-ascender combination will execute a soft landing on the moon and carry out automatic sampling. The orbiter-returner will continue orbiting about 200 kilometres above...
19 July 2019
The day humanity walked on the Moon
... years later at 10.56pm EDT on 20 July, (03:56 GMT, 21 July) 1969, Kennedy’s objective would be fulfilled. Incidentally, this momentous moon landing occasion may not have have been captured at all, had it not been for some plucky Australian...
23 February 2018
UK to host world’s first commercial deep-space communications station
... site located in Cornwall, UK that was once used to beam iconic images to TV viewers of events such as the Apollo 11 Moon landing, will help create the world’s first commercial deep-space communications station, capable of tracking future missions...
01 October 2019
Hasselblad and The Moon Landing
Space aficionados will know that the camera of choice for the Apollo Moon missions was the Hasselblad 500EL, a bulky, large-format camera that captured the pictures which have ...
