August 2020
Interstellar aspirations
... 1920s, considerable writings focused on travel to the Moon and planets and even inspired work on rocketry by... July 2015, the 46th anniversary of the 1969 Apollo Moon landing, Russian entrepreneur, venture capitalist and physicist, Yuri Milner pledged...
October 2021
Space in the movies – lessons for spacefarers
... is Apollo 13 (1995) starring Tom Hanks. The film relates the tale of the ill-fated third attempt at a Moon landing with almost documentary accuracy. A violent explosion rocks the spacecraft, leading to an urgent scramble at Mission Control to rescue...
01 October 2019
Moonfire: the epic journey of Apollo 11
...marked the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing. For those space aficionados who were around ...writing complements the artistry of the images. In A Fire on the Moon, Mailer pioneered the ‘human narrative’ approach for space history, including...
December 2018
Asgardia at Escape Velocity 2018
...science fiction continues to influence space exploration, from the Moon landings to the daily research aboard the International Space Station ...display including a nine-foot tall Monolith, Clavius moon base spacesuit and Pan Am stewardess uniform. The ...
June 2022
Finnish start-up ReOrbit aims to revolutionise space industry
... that put Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the Moon.” While the growth of technological change since the 1960s...smartphones are light years ahead of NASA computers that guided Apollo Moon landings. Autonomy When we talk about autonomy in space, we ...
18 December 2019
US Senate suggests Artemis delay after requested funding halved
...bill. However the prospect of putting astronauts on the Moon by 2024 received another blow as the bill only ...at the Subcommittee's hearing on NASA's proposal to advance the next moon landing by four years. “Overall, I remain extremely concerned by the...
