26 February 2018
Moon – Owners’ Workshop Manual
...our nearest celestial neighbour’. In a dozen chapters, it guides us from classical times, via a potted history of famous astronomers, to lunar missions through the Space Age. The book is well illustrated in colour and monochrome which, along with all...
10 October 2018
Space techpreneur to set up over $100m venture unit
... this year’s first quarter alone,” commented Yenbamroong. The recent space technology demonstrations and future lunar missions make setting up a venture unit a timely decision, according to Yenbamroong. “We’re extremely optimistic about the sustained...
14 June 2019
First experiments on Chinese Space Station announced
... plan follows on from India’s prospering space endeavours which saw the country conduct its first lunar mission in 2008, and its mission to Mars in 2014. Totalling around $74 million, the project cost a fraction of the $671 million NASA...
31 December 2020
'mu Space' to build Thailand's first spaceship in 2021
...and can be used for ISS resupply, Earth orbit and cis-lunar missions, say the 3-year-old Thai firm. It will utilise a... system testing for unmanned vehicles to be used on the Moon mission will also be built along with a locally made Global Positioning ...
June 2015
Astronauts having a laugh
... exploration of the early 1970s. It was the time of lunar missions and flights to the orbiting space station, Skylab. A simple...seen here during a spacewalk outside Skylab, persuaded NASA Mission Control that he’d smuggled his wife onboard the space...
02 July 2019
Orion spacecraft's launch abort test completed successfully
...astronauts to the Moon in the Orion spacecraft for Artemis missions,” said Bill Hill, deputy associate administrator for Exploration ...since manufacturing the Saturn V stages for NASA’s Apollo lunar missions in the 1960s. Orion is part of NASA’s ...
