06 November 2019
Boeing's ‘fewest steps to the Moon’ proposal for NASA’s Human Lander
... specifies it will ensure a ‘fewest steps to the Moon’ approach that minimises mission complexity. The company’s proposal,...Block 1B, we have developed a ‘Fewest Steps to the Moon’ approach that minimizes mission complexity, while offering the safest...
17 December 2020
Chang'e 5 probe returns to Earth with Moon rocks
... Satellite Launch Center soon were soon on hand to retrieve the capsule. During Chang'e 5's two days on the Moon, it collected two kilograms (4.5 pounds) of material in a volcanic area called Mons Ruemker in the Oceanus Procellarum – a region that...
November 2017
Preserving Apollo’s lunar legacy
... States is bound. Astronaut Harrison Schmitt, a geologist and the first person initially trained as a scientist to walk on the Moon, photographed on 13 December 1972 during the third Apollo 17 EVA at the Taurus-Littrow landing site. Article II of the...
March 2016
Mining outer space may be cool but is it legal?
... so few countries have ratified it that can be deemed to be a failed treaty. Agreement Governing the Activities of States on the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies, Dec. 5, 1979, 1363 U.N.T.S. 3, (entered into force Jul. 11, 1984). 11 Outer Space Treaty...
March 2017
Space research inspires innovation in fashion
... Trabona, ‘Dal piede di Armstrong l’idea per i miei Moon Boot’ for Corriere del Veneto in July 2009. Standing in...Century most representative of the history of world costume. And today Moon Boot is one of the few trademarks allowed in the Italian ...
17 June 2020
NASA wants to visit Neptune’s weird moon Triton
...be the first spacecraft to get close to Neptune and its moons since the Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by three decades ago; ... retrograde orbit and icy plumes – a feature which on other moons is thought to be caused by water from the interior being forced...
