February 2020
Climate change and spaceports – a difficult balance
... to develop a high-tech industry and reducing its dependency on seasonal tourism is an opportunity to embrace Fifty years ago, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the Moon. To get them there, hundreds of thousands of people had worked together...
September 2017
Australia’s unique space history
... Creek actually brought the world the television images of Neil Armstrong stepping onto the lunar surface, before the rest of... Creek tracking station that received the television signals of Armstrong’s first steps on the Moon, now a heritage monument...
January 2018
Space nation's first orbiting satellite
... future course by adopting laws, calling referenda and appointing ministers and justices. To paraphrase world famous astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first person to walk on the Moon, the launch of Asgardia-1 can be seen as a first small step leading...
24 April 2018
The Final Mission: Preserving NASA’s Apollo Sites
... As the authors point out, the public remembers Neil Armstrong and his fellow travellers but has “long since ...historic footprints on an alien world, made in the lunar dust by Armstrong and Aldrin. If no-one returns to the Moon, they will remain ...
March 2015
Russia and safe space initiatives
...and Ukraine), and adopted at a plenary meeting of the 69th session of the UN General Assembly on 2 December. American astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon in 1969 as part of the Apollo 11 mission, inspiring generations...
March 2015
Sowing a new dream
..., “Yaping is a nice girl, we always want to take care of her. But it seems she doesn’t need any help.” Neil Armstrong famously said during his moon landing, “That’s one small step for a man…One giant leap...
