25 April 2018
The Final Mission: Preserving NASA’s Apollo Sites
...best way to decide whether the subject is of interest is to consider the question of those first 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 there forever, but...
31 May 2019
Melting moon dust with lasers to use in lunar habitats
A return to the Moon has become a high priority for many international space agencies and companies wanting to stamp their mark on the dusty lunar surface, either by undertaking scientific experiments or to mine it for potential resources. Some even...
19 September 2023
Apollo Remastered
... Apollo 17 mission in 1972, so our only recourse for 50 years has been to ‘return to the Moon virtually’ by means of documentary films and books. Occasionally, a coffee-table tome on Apollo makes us stop and marvel at ...
April 2019
Protecting our lunar legacy
..., let alone any international regulatory agreement. Legally, at present, there are no protections for any of the artefacts left on the Moon, or any of the features of the landing sites. But this document was a good start, and it served its purpose...
June 2019
Does the speed of light change with time?
... year. This tiny change, near the limit of detection by ACES, sheds light on the lunar anomaly. If the speed of laser light were slowing, time for light to return from the Moon would increase each year, making the lunar distance appear to increase...
31 December 2018
Rocket Men: the daring odyssey of Apollo 8
.... Although he sees similarities in today’s political situation, he recognises that the mission itself provided a “significant difference”. “When Borman, Lovell, and Anders returned from the Moon”, he says, “few could argue… that they hadn’t seen...
