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...
December 2014
Ready for Mars? From Mars-500 to zero-gravity medical issues
... 1960s, following the euphoria of the Apollo 11 Moon-landing success, Wernher von Braun seriously anticipated NASA launching... crews will need to train more heavily as their landing phase approaches, with initial surface operations carefully limited, ...
July 2020
Pandemic in space – are we ready?
... further spread. The returning Apollo 11 crew were placed directly in quarantine for three weeks after their Moon landing mission. NASA used a converted Airstream trailer as its mobile quarantine facility. At the heart of global health governance...
02 September 2021
Long awaited SLS launch looks likely to slip to mid-2022
... to predict that Artemis 1 would take off in 2021. Nelson hasn’t publicly denied the feasibility of a 2024 Moon landing, an intentionally ambitious goal set by the administration of former President Donald Trump. However, in recent weeks a report...
January 2018
Cosmic cocktails and galactic moonshine
...most notable example of this occurred during the Apollo 11 Moon landing in 1969 when Buzz Aldrin consumed wine as part ... to design an experiment that would go up on India’s Moon lander, we thought we could combine our hobby with the competition...
January 2023
LUNAR OASIS – architectural visions for an integrated lunar habitat
...after celebrating the first crewed Moon landing of 1969, the time has come to study the Moon more closely using today’s ...well. The physical parameters and technical aspects of the Moon require a different strategy for the spatial and structural ...
