September 2016
Moon or Mars - how logical is NASA’s next step?
... which hopes to acquire rights to mine the Moon. Drawing by S Fokke, and improved by J Smit, from the Dutch Maritime Museum showing a meeting between the directors of the VOC and the Stadtholder, or executive, of the Dutch Republic in 1771. Here they...
03 May 2021
NASA tells SpaceX to halt HLS development after protest by rivals
... base, and not only delays, but also endangers America’s return to the Moon. Because of that, we’ve filed a protest with the GAO,” Jeff Bezo’s aerospace company said. In response to these protests, NASA has now informed SpaceX to stop ...
05 November 2021
Blue Origin loses NASA lawsuit over SpaceX lunar lander contract
... not only delays, but also endangers America’s return to the Moon. Because of that, we’ve filed a protest with the GAO”. The move prompted NASA to inform SpaceX that work had to stop until the GAO resolved the matter. But despite their efforts...
April 2026
Apollo lunar rover - the Lego version
..., that even my wife was impressed with a demonstration of the model’s manoeuvrability! Return to the Moon It is well over half a century since the last vehicle (LRV-3) was driven on the Moon, but if NASA’s Artemis programme is successful we could see...
12 October 2015
2,000 Delegates Arrive in Jerusalem for Space Industry's Premier Annual Event
... of water on Mars, which is sure to encourage the conversation over planned piloted missions to the Red Planet, as well as plans to return to the moon. NASA’s Bolden stressed that Mars was a focus of the agency's activity: “Our focus is on getting...
30 November 2016
German company announce their 'Mission to the Moon' plans
...17, 45yrs after the historic mission saw the last human footprints on the Moon. The company’s ‘Mission to the Moon’ is hoping to achieve what no-one else has achieved since 1972, but this time around the race to return to the Moon will be a privately...
