08 January 2023
The Light of Earth: reflections on a life in space
... that Neil was friendly toward him as “because I never bugged him”. Addressing the common image of the first man on the Moon, he opines that he was “more self-contained than aloof”. As for Aldrin: “To be honest, I think Buzz...
17 September 2021
Chinese astronauts return to Earth after 90-day mission
... within 30 minutes of landing. The crew of the Shenzhou-12 spacecraft were in good health, China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) said in a statement. "The first manned mission to the (Chinese) space station is a complete success," it said. The taikonauts...
February 2016
Space – Overcoming Our Limitations
..., a kind of technical antagonism. Of course, one cannot discard such motivation - after all, it led to the first man in space, to man’s first steps on the Moon and to setting up the technological foundation for modern space science. But Tumlinson...
July 2019
Lessons from our first race to the Moon
... for eight years with one historic space first after another, including the first man to orbit the Earth, Yuri Gagarin, ...somewhat isolated. The friction between Soviet space experts in the first half of the 1960s meant that there was no coherent...
July 2019
Robotic astronomy on the Moon
...- with the belief that this could be as significant as the first man on the Moon. It also helps fulfil the Apollo 11 pledge...reality as USA is planning the Artemis programme to land the first woman, and man, at the Moon south pole by 2024. Artemis, the...
01 April 2025
Cosmonaut - A Cultural History
...”) individuals of which the Soviet Union could be proud. The serial successes of those early Soviet missions – first man, first woman, first spacewalk – have been well documented. This book adds some interesting commentary on the apparent inability...
