29 August 2022
Lift-off draws close for NASA’s spectacular lunar return mission
... mission to the Moon in 1972, the intervening 50 years have been populated with Space Shuttle missions into low Earth orbit and more recently crewed missions from private US space companies such as Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin and...
11 March 2019
NASA outlines future Moon to Mars plans
... to take the next giant leap – sending astronauts to Mars. “This budget will build on our successes in low-Earth orbit to create a sustainable exploration campaign that combines NASA’s expertise with that of our commercial and international partners...
25 September 2020
The Consequential Frontier - Challenging the Privatization of Space
... by space professionals keen to highlight the inadequacies of the Outer Space Treaty or the effect of the Kessler Syndrome on low Earth orbit. The author of The Consequential Frontier (one wonders how many more titles can be squeezed from the...
17 November 2020
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 astronauts arrive at the ISS
... era in space travel; it also ends the reliance on the US using Russian rockets to get their astronauts into low Earth orbit - an arrangement that has been in place since NASA's Space Shuttle programme ended in 2011.
22 June 2021
Space Debris Peril
...-specialist element of its intended audience, but I know which approach I’d vote for if I was living on a space station in low Earth orbit!
08 January 2023
Space Ethics
With the rise of NewSpace, increasing commercial activities in low Earth orbit and the long-overdue realisation that space debris could end it all, the topic of space ethics ...
