November 2020
Walking on the Moon
... a second rover from the former Soviet Union, followed in January 1973. Significantly, in terms of the history of space exploration, the Lunokhods remained the only teleoperated rovers to be sent to another planetary body until NASA’s Sojourner rover...
March 2021
Building SLS - a contractual odyssey
... heavy-lift rocket after an independent commission had presented a range of approaches NASA could pursue in human space exploration, including alternatives to the Ares rockets designed for Constellation. One of those alternatives was to design a new...
October 2024
Lunar construction with regolith and robots
... start of a new era for space exploration. Increasingly, space missions are being led by commercial entities.... Meanwhile, national governments across the world continue to explore outer space, as demonstrated by China’s lunar sample return mission ...
20 January 2016
Rick Tumlinson Asks and Answers: If Space is So Hard, Why Should We Go there?
An inspirational talk by Rick Tumlinson about the possibilities and potential of space exploration and the importance of breaking boundaries in order to reach new horizons in space. TEDxESA talks more: Geraint “Taff” Morgan Discusses Using Rosetta's...
13 August 2018
NASA to partner with six US companies to develop space exploration technologies
... Jim Bridenstine, "These awards focus on technology collaborations with the commercial space sector that leverage emerging markets and capabilities to meet NASA's exploration goals. While these key technologies will support NASA's science and human...
March 2015
Supplanting the state: rewards and risks
...truly began in 2010, when a private company first successfully launched a round-trip space flight. Commercial innovation in space Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies (“SpaceX”), founded in 2002, made history in December 2010 when it became the...
