03 June 2021
Nelson announces NASA’s return to Venus
...Moon landing, the Biden administration has doubled down on the Trump team’s pledge to land the “first woman and next man” on the Moon... Nor did Nelson mention a date for the astronaut landing, which the previous administration said would happen in 2024...
21 October 2019
Russia could join US-led Lunar Gateway programme
... itself as we go forward," Laporte said. Bridenstine said accelerating a Moon landing would help people get to Mars faster. With the Moon mission complete by 2024, he thinks a Mars landing could happen as soon as 2035. As plans for the Gateway...
February 2019
Building a space museum from scratch
..., in 1969, around the time of the Apollo 11 Moon landing. The staff had put up a few Letraset printed information...leave Earth, it was a Lunar Module Descent Engine, the type you land on the Moon with! “Oh my gosh,” I thought. “I have my museum right...
11 November 2020
Senate deals major blow to Bridenstine’s Moon ambitions
... the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing, Bridenstine announced the #Moon2024 goal in March...later by a crewed mission to lunar orbit, and culminating in a human landing on the Moon’s surface in 2024 — famously by at least one man and one ...
01 October 2019
The Apollo Chronicles: Engineering America’s First Moon Missions
..., tells the story of a group of “lesser known engineers who were instrumental in the success of the first manned moon landing”. In this sense, it fits into the ‘advanced reading’ category, in that when you’ve had your fill of astronauts...
20 May 2022
Reaching for the Moon
...” (according to the blurb) “to highlight key actions that led to various successes, failures, and ultimately the American Moon landing”. However, this is far from the first time an author has done so, and many European authors have...
