November 2017
Preserving Apollo’s lunar legacy
... a distant horizon. But however symbolic it may seem, it will assure that the base of a new generation of competitive space exploration will be founded in our shared humanity. This plaque, left on the Moon at the Apollo 15 landing site in August...
July 2020
Are we entering a post-Overview Effect era?
... considers its future development. Whilst writing The Overview Effect, I wanted to create a revolution in how we think about space exploration, our planet and ourselves. For a long time, I thought I had failed in this endeavour but even though...
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 ...
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...
