April 2020
Is space poised to take another giant leap?
... a national impetus existed to race into space again. The question is: can another race really lead to a sustainable,...technical problems that prevented it docking with the International Space Station. The capsule used parachutes and airbags to make...
19 June 2019
Shoot for the Moon
...to keep stoking the fire! The book’s subtitle – The Space Race and the Extraordinary Voyage of Apollo 11 (abbreviated on the ...“Up”, “Around” and “Out” precede this and form the “Space Race” part of the subtitle. Seasoned readers of Apollo books will ...
01 April 2016
Joke Carved into Olympus Mons by Unknown Race Discovered
... a missile with an antenna at the top on his lawn. Living in the middle of the Cold War and the Space Race, Loy understandably assumed that the object was a fallen Soviet satellite, similar to Sputnik. He sent his family...
07 October 2015
Google Lunar X Prize sees first verified launch contract
... X Prize, at a press conference in Jerusalem. “It gives all of us at X Prize and Google the great pride to say, ‘The new space race is on!’” Weiss added that the other 15 teams now have until the end of 2016 to present their own...
June 2015
The new space ethics: COSPAR, Planetary Protection and beyond
... all manner of commercial, scientific and military endeavours in a way that did not seem possible at outset of the space race.2 The formidable advances in scientific and engineering expertise that have occurred since then means that attention...
December 2019
Human conception and childbirth in space
... were involved, but as soon as private companies were allowed and encouraged to join the ‘space race’ many developments were accelerated. Traditionally, the space arena was represented by Russia and the US, but now India, China, Japan, Canada...
