04 February 2021
Three more service modules for Artemis to be built in Europe
... vehicle and this new agreement will facilitate many future Moon missions through international partnerships. Europe is a strong and reliable partner in NASA’s Artemis missions and the Orion European Service Module represents a crucial contribution...
September 2017
Engaging the private sector in space exploration
...: PTScientists, Germany, in partnership with Audi AG, propose a European privately-funded Moon surface mission. This Moon mission is a promising opportunity to establish a commercial lunar transport service in Europe. Such capability would enable...
November 2020
The alien hunter’s field manual
... by orange and green halos. Case 1 is relevant for combining the LUVOIR and OWL-MOON missions, Case 2 corresponds to the RST and HabEx missions. In Case 3, relevant for JWST and SETI large scale technosignature searches, the survey...
01 October 2019
Hasselblad and The Moon Landing
... the camera of choice for the Apollo Moon missions was the Hasselblad 500EL, a bulky, ...camera in the lunar environment. The initial ambivalence about photography on the Apollo missions – the science was more important! – comes across well in this ...
01 October 2019
Apollo 11 Owners’ Workshop Manual
...-running series of space-related offerings from this publisher, provides a technical celebration of the first manned Moon mission. It is a “50th Anniversary Special Edition” of a book first published in 2009 and features an extra section providing...
August 2019
Lessons from the Sun
... at bay. Industry learned and moved on. NASA convened a workshop to decide how to deal with the planned Apollo 17 Moon mission, should McMath Region 11976 reappear, and, although it did not, the event became a benchmark for astronaut...
