November 2026
Beyond footprints - what Apollo really taught us about becoming a spacefaring civilisation
... It was the beginning of a systems architecture for a spacefaring civilisation. Even its afterlife demonstrated this. When the Moon landings ended with Apollo 17 in 1972, NASA found itself with surplus hardware, surplus expertise and surplus momentum...
01 February 2019
First private spacecraft gearing up for Moon landing
... Division General Manager, said: “We are proud to be the first non-governmental entity in the world to go to the moon. Landing on the moon was for many years a little-discussed topic among the public, but recently we see growing interest...
November 2019
Space for Art – Reflections on the Moon
...8 and the iconic Earthrise image, Apollo 11 and the first Moon landing, and over the next couple years with Apollo 12 through ... 2001: A Space Odyssey made one year before the first Moon landing. The film begins in total darkness, with only the sound ...
11 December 2020
NASA reveals Artemis Team to train for moon landings
...’s modern lunar exploration program will land the first woman and next man on the Moon in 2024 and establish a sustainable... the agency’s commercial partners as they develop human landing systems; assisting in the development of training; defining...
March 2017
Space research inspires innovation in fashion
...same time and looking from another point of view, the Moon landing has also inspired great ideas, like the Venetian entrepreneur Giancarlo...jeans with imprinted entire constellations, sneakers with lunar landing soles. “The Versace man has always been ...
November 2019
The economic promise of space
... who flooded into science and engineering hoping to participate in humankind’s greatest adventure. However, unlike the Moon landings, that vision never materialised. Instead of taking advantage of the technology developed during the Apollo era, short...
