10 November 2021
NASA moves human lunar landing mission to 2025
...for the spacecraft that will transport the crew to the lunar surface has grown to $9.3 billion. Rising costs were ...lunar lander on Artemis III. “There were a lot of requirements changes,” said Jim Free, NASA associate administrator for exploration...
25 June 2021
China announces plans to build a base on Mars starting in 2033
... including schematics of the joint International Lunar Research Station (ILRS) were also unveiled at GLEX 2021 with officials stating that the base will be developed concurrently but separate to the Artemis lunar exploration programme led by the US.
26 July 2021
Israel’s Helios to ride on ispace lunar lander to make oxygen on the Moon
...Helios has said it plans to join ispace, Japan’s lunar exploration firm, on its second and third missions to the ...while the metals will be used to establish the infrastructure for future lunar and martian bases, say the firm. “Our solution is unique ...
June 2015
Innovation at escape velocity: from NASA’s Apollo to SpaceX
.... gov/sites/default/files/files/GER-2013_Small.pdf 2: Harvey, B. (2007). Soviet and Russian Lunar Exploration (pp. 69-108). Praxis Publishing Ltd., Chichester, UK. 3: Faulkner, A. H, Gurzi, F., and Hughes, E. L. (1962). MAGIC – An Advanced Computer...
July 2021
Commercial space stations - fulfilling the dream
...to pay for the Shuttle, the ISS and lunar exploration, so the Shuttle was the sacrificial lamb. Now we have the ISS...and how to resolve those kinds of things for long-term human exploration. Why not test components on the ISS first? KAVANDI Well, ...
08 October 2018
A round-up of news from this years IAC
...While already formal partners, NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) agreed to strengthen ties on the ... support the Canadian Space Agency in a new era of lunar exploration,” said Moon Express Founder and CEO Bob Richards. “Successful ...
