11 November 2020
Senate deals major blow to Bridenstine’s Moon ambitions
... up and of a down for the US space programme came this week on the heels of NASA administrator...Obama and Joe Biden cancelled the George W Bush administration’s Constellation programme that also planned to return astronauts to the Moon. Having resigned...
06 March 2019
Growing food from thin air to feed astronauts
... food production with solar energy anywhere,” says Pasi Vainikka, CEO, Solar Foods. Born from a NASA space programme, and further developed by the Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd and the Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT...
08 January 2023
The Light of Earth: reflections on a life in space
... what Al thinks! The book concludes with “Thoughts after a Moon Voyage”, Worden’s views on the point of the space programme and a “Poem from the Far Side of the Moon” (from which the book’s title - The Light...
April 2020
Is space poised to take another giant leap?
...mission, pushed for by the country’s then president, Abdul Kalam, a former aerospace engineer and father of India’s space programme. Chandrayaan-1 was designed to look for signs of water ice, long thought to have accumulated in the Moon’s permanently...
18 December 2024
EU to launch advanced constellation to counter Musk’s Starlink
...Infrastructure for Resilience, Interconnectivity and Security by Satellite). IRIS² is the European Union's (EU) third flagship space programme, after Galileo and Copernicus, and is designed to address pressing long-term challenges in security, safety...
23 September 2024
Japan in Space: Past, Present and Future
... its “genius engineer” Hideo Itokawa, who is showcased by the author as the “founding father”. It is said that all space programmes have foundation myths, he writes, “typically formed around an original, visionary chief designer”, but few provide...
