January 2018
Cosmic cocktails and galactic moonshine
...most notable example of this occurred during the Apollo 11 Moon landing in 1969 when Buzz Aldrin consumed wine as part ... to design an experiment that would go up on India’s Moon lander, we thought we could combine our hobby with the competition...
January 2023
LUNAR OASIS – architectural visions for an integrated lunar habitat
...after celebrating the first crewed Moon landing of 1969, the time has come to study the Moon more closely using today’s ...well. The physical parameters and technical aspects of the Moon require a different strategy for the spatial and structural ...
31 July 2019
GLEE mission aims to send 500 LunaSats to the Moon
...of Apollo 11, let us tell the world we are going to the moon with a new mission conducted by students from countries across the globe, and... mission be? Whose launch vehicle will take us to the moon? Whose lander will get us to the surface?” GLEE might...
October 2026
Winning the Space Race at home
... from outer space, and the 1969 Moon landing in which NASA astronauts allegedly filmed the landing inside the Area 51 US Air Force...the agency was just “blowing away taxpayer dollars to the Moon”, without substantial returns. But it didn’t have to deal...
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...
