October 2023
The multidisciplinary world of space habitation design
... the habitat, which can be commercial, scientific research, tourism or a mixture of various intentions. Artist impression of a lunar outpost. Challenges associated with long-duration missions intensify the demands on habitats and their design, system...
April 2020
Is space poised to take another giant leap?
... with the Chinese, the United States also has a crewed lunar outpost on its ‘to do list’ for the 2020s. Indeed, ...to the Moon. This demonstration of how we might unlock such lunar resources profitably is what offers us the best chance of taking ...
19 April 2021
NASA picks SpaceX Human Lunar Lander for its Artemis programme
...This critical step puts humanity on a path to sustainable lunar exploration and keeps our eyes on missions farther into the... rocket, Orion spacecraft, HLS, and the Gateway lunar outpost, NASA and its commercial and international partners are returning...
27 January 2020
US bill spurns Moon programme favouring Mars instead
... specified in the bill. However, the push for Mars is coming at an expense to previously welcomed lunar projects. Ventures such a lunar outpost or In Situ Resource Utilisation (ISRU) are being sidelined and activities on or around the surface of the...
October 2017
Back to the future - heeding the lessons of history
It is imperative that people begin to understand the reasons why the American manned space programme died a slow death after the stunning success of Apollo in the early 1970s. Imperative because gaining such an understanding will finally illuminate ...
July 2019
Who owns outer space?
... a small spacecraft to the Moon. It plans to follow this with the establishment of a lunar outpost at the south lunar pole and, in 2020, a mission to harvest samples from the lunar surface. Moon Express is clear about who they believe will own...
