April 2019
Protecting our lunar legacy
...protection of some of the historical sites and associated objects. It would be unrealistic to attempt to save all evidence of those first Moon landings, but perhaps we could try to protect some of the boot prints, rover tracks and space hardware that...
January 2018
NASA’s space police wield full force of law
... manager for the Apollo programme. According to Joann, her husband received memorabilia associated with the first Moon landing mission, Apollo 11, which included two encased paperweights. One of the paperweights contained a small fragment of the...
31 December 2021
Space missions to watch out for in 2022
... be delivered by ispace's HAKUTO-R lander will be the first moon landing for the Arab world and for Japan. Also in late 2022, Lunar Outpost will see their rover land near the Moon’s south pole carrying with it 4G communications equipment...
26 February 2018
Spaceman: an astronaut’s unlikely journey to unlock the secrets of the universe
... us on a very personal journey from his impressions of the first Moon landing, through his career as an astronaut, to the time of ... returned to the crew quarters and found himself alone for the first time in two weeks. “I had been around my crewmates ...
March 2016
Space Oddities: The Problem with Imagination
..., who developed flight software for the Apollo space programme (work that eventually prevented an abort of the first Moon landing almost triggered by the computer) is also credited with coining the term ‘software engineering’. Only in 2013 did...
