April 2025
Racing to the Moon
...’s Artemis Accords which has been signed by Argentina, Nicaragua and Pakistan, as well as Asia Pacific and Arab international organisations. The nations interested in long-term lunar exploration are rapidly sorting themselves into two politically...
24 July 2017
First lunar observatory for Moon's south pole in 2019
... and research station will be the world’s first instrument to image the Milky Way Galaxy and to conduct international astrophysical observations and communications from the lunar surface.” While the words ‘Lunar Observatory’ and ‘astrophysical...
07 November 2018
China unveils its new space station 'Heavenly Palace'
... replica of its ‘Heavenly Palace,’ a 60-tonne orbiting space lab that is the nation’s answer to the International Space Station (ISS). The International Space Station – a collaboration between the United States, Russia, Canada, Europe and Japan – has...
30 September 2021
China, Russia to present lunar station declaration at IAC in Dubai
... experts' proposals the declaration will be presented to the world space community for wide discussion at the 72nd International Astronautical Congress, due in Dubai on October 25-29, 2021," the news release runs. Roscosmos said the declaration would...
December 2014
Gods and space
Getting a helping hand – An Orthodox priest performs a blessing at the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch pad in Kazakhstan, ahead of the Soyuz launch that carried Expedition 41 to the International Space Station in September 2014
October 2018
Funding the space frontier – a moment that changed the Universe
... become historical footnotes to those in that future. Be they images of commercial space cargo ships docking with the International Space Station, or video clips of re-useable or privately funded rocket ships landing on pillars of flame, they are and...
