20 December 2021
China envisions crewed moon missions by 2030
..., reports SpaceNews. Last month Peijan noted that Chinese boots on the moon will be “entirely possible” by 2030, as long as technological research for crewed moon landings continues, and “as long as the country is determined”, he said. The rocket...
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 ...
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...
June 2015
The new space ethics: COSPAR, Planetary Protection and beyond
...). Each shuttle flight cost around $1.4 billion. Even more expensive were the moon landings, with a total bill in excess of $100 billion and each landing costing around $18 billion. 5: James Schwartz, (2011), ‘Our Moral Obligation to Support Space...
