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...
11 January 2016
Space Rock Legend David Bowie Dies Aged 69
... Oddity”. It was timed to coincide with the Apollo 11 moon landing and became a top five UK hit. The album itself was...Man Who Fell to Earth”. The film, about an extraterrestrial who crash lands on Earth in search of a way to ship water to his home...
01 June 2020
SpaceX's Crew Dragon docks at ISS
..., the same launch pad used for the Apollo 11 Moon landing mission. After reaching orbit, Behnken and Hurley named their... transportation system, including launch, in-orbit, docking and landing operations. This is SpaceX’s second spaceflight test of its...
March 2016
Space Oddities: The Problem with Imagination
...human computer who’d calculated the Apollo 11 trajectory to the Moon - the trajectory that ultimately led to humanity’s first steps...work that eventually prevented an abort of the first Moon landing almost triggered by the computer) is also credited ...
