01 October 2018
ispace partners with SpaceX for 2020 & 2021 Moon missions
...We are looking forward to delivering their innovative spacecraft to the Moon,” added Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX President & COO The decision to... Mission 1 has been defined as an orbit around the Moon, while Mission 2 will perform a soft lunar landing and...
27 March 2019
NASA to land humans on the Moon again by 2024 - but with better fitting spacesuits hopefully
... Trump has asked NASA to accelerate US plans to return to the Moon and to land humans on the surface again by 2024.’ Wonderful! ... news that NASA has reinvigorated its plans to return to the Moon. Why this statement now? Could it be that earlier this ...
16 July 2019
Fuel leak halts India's Moon mission
... become only the fourth nation to land a spacecraft on the Moon. Having halted the countdown 56 minutes and 24 seconds before the ...quoted a senior ISRO official as saying. The Chandrayaan-2—or Moon Chariot 2—mission is part of India's ambitious space ...
January 2018
NASA’s space police wield full force of law
... upon receipt of Joann’s email, NASA authorised a criminal investigation into the claim that she possessed an Apollo 11 Moon rock. The investigation included the prompt institution of an undercover operation. Within hours of NASA receiving her email...
July 2019
A reluctant American hero
... become the first man to walk on the Moon. The Apollo 11 Moon landing story and crew commander Neil Armstrong’s ‘reluctant... – one journalist reported that, “NASA makes travelling to the Moon look as exciting as a journey to Pittsburgh!” For a while...
July 2019
Who owns outer space?
...of space law in an attempt to answer the question of who owns the potential wealth of resources. Plans to mine the Moon and asteroids are in place, confronting scholars, politicians and space professionals with challenging legal, economic, scientific...
