... disastrous uncrewed test flight of Boeing’s Starliner capsule; and a popular surge in private-sector contracts for lunar exploration. When first asked to approve Bridenstine’s nomination as administrator, some members of Congress objected to putting...
..., the book is sufficiently up-to-date to include discussion of the Lunar Gateway and the plan to return humans to the Moon in ...index. It would make an ideal primer on manned lunar exploration and would bring the reader ‘up to speed’ on the...
... launch site, the launch of global satcom, satnav, and EO constellations, and the fourth phase of the China Lunar Exploration Program. Overall, despite the 2020s having begun with a pandemic that shut down China and the...
... the status quo. Indeed, it would be a brave, perhaps short-sighted, practitioner who would rule out insuring a lunar exploration or asteroid mining mission sometime in the not-too-distant future. Speculation apart, for the foreseeable future...
... Saturday, the chief designer of the third stage of China's lunar exploration program, Hu Hao, said the country is aiming to launch ...samples in 2020, Chang'e-6 would also collect lunar samples automatically for comprehensive analysis and research. It...
... military fighter pilots. With the start of the lunar exploration programme, the military personnel – transferred from the ...high government priority. As a result, today’s space exploration is dominated by objects and artefacts that are mostly ...