May 2022
Design architecture for 3D printing a lunar habitat
... zero gravity replicated on Earth in the Einstein elevator. Project MOONRISE used a customised laser mounted on the MIRA3D lunar rover prototype and melted regolith into spherical shapes. Mind map for construction of a 3D printed...
15 November 2019
First public test of Mars lander for China ahead of 2020 launch
... to gather data on the arid and dusty martian surface. Twice as massive as China’s two lunar rovers, the Mars rover will be equipped with a packed payload of instruments including a subsurface detection radar, a climate detector, and a Mars magnetic...
January 2020
Old rocks, new tricks - a lunar link to modern volcanology
...was a hot and fiery one. The vast majority of lunar evolution occurred in the first billion years of its existence...techniques to map rocks and minerals in 3D, and with NASA on lunar samples. He also works with volcano monitoring experts on Tenerife to...
29 March 2018
Forever Young: a life of adventure in air and space
..., Apollo CSM and LM, and Shuttle) and to have driven a lunar rover on the Moon! Not a bad CV for starters. The book begins...a presumably frustrating mission designed only to go as far as lunar orbit and not land; to be returning to the command module...
February 2016
A Moon of Their Own
... circumnavigation in high orbit and the return to Earth. A lunar landing was not part of the experiment. The project also...was developed for the experiment, allowing users to guide a lunar rover on the Moon’s surface. This program, along with Neurolab-...
