January 2021
Time to change our relationship with space?
... spaceflight was all about astronauts and the Moon. I ate, slept and breathed Apollo, and watched in awe the Moon landing as an 11-year-old boy in the... when its Philae probe made the first successful landing on the surface a comet and began sending ...
25 October 2019
Jim Bridenstine discusses impact of Trump impeachment on NASA plans
... but spanning generations." He has frequently said one reason for the accelerated timeline is so that the next Moon landing might happen during a potential second Trump administration, to "retire political risk" of shifting legislative priorities.
May 2019
Space for Art – Astronauts and artists
... marking the 50th anniversary of the first Moon landing, as part of the Apollo 11 lunar mission, we should take time to reflect on all of the lessons we’ve learned from our Apollo travels to the Moon. These lessons are absolutely those of discovery...
April 2020
Lunar artefact – a time capsule for the future
... Mark Baskinger explains that the MoonArk, built to last thousands of years, will be a fossil object for future Moon landings, an artefact that will link the discoverer to the complexities of a distant era. Impossibly small, broadly diverse, hyper...
January 2023
Original Sin - Power, Technology and War in Outer Space
... relations sour. For many, ‘space’ conjures majestic images of the planets, stars and nebulae, the Apollo Moon landings, Martian rovers, or guitar-wielding astronauts on the International Space Station. These encapsulate space as a realm where humans...
February 2020
‘Witches brew’ of a subordinate space corps
... were you? What were you thinking and saying? If you ‘witnessed’ the 1969 Moon landing you will remember. We laughed together, and together we experienced awe, wonder and inspiration. We were terrified, hopeful, ...