February 2019
Simulating lunar and martian regolith in the laboratory
... drill and analytical capabilities of the rover in preparation for its activities on Mars. Orange soil found during Apollo 17 is believed to have been created by volcanic processes early in the Moon’s history. Alongside the ExoMars applications, some...
July 2020
Lego’s replica space programme
... Photo Library. Note on pricing Prices depend on regional markets and, to some extent, on availability. For example, the Apollo Saturn V kit (item 21309) cost £109.99 when released in 2017, but is no longer available in the UK (although it sells...
February 2019
Building a space museum from scratch
...around. Luckily, I struck gold. Colour TV camera flown on Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in 1975. One thing about NASA and ... camera, this time a Hasselblad used in training for the Apollo lunar astronauts. An elegant Lladro ceramic statue of a US astronaut...
April 2020
Protecting against the dangers of space radiation
... the maximum level of radiation that astronauts should tolerate The Apollo mission EVAs were generally quite short, ranging from two hours on Apollo 9 to 22 hours on Apollo 17. This is very different to what we are preparing for in terms of a future...
29 March 2018
Forever Young: a life of adventure in air and space
... it must have been uppermost in Young’s memories of the programme. After all, he had already been that far on Apollo 10, a presumably frustrating mission designed only to go as far as lunar orbit and not land; to be returning to the command module...
December 2014
Ready for Mars? From Mars-500 to zero-gravity medical issues
... the crew and their family. While the intrepid Apollo astronauts ventured into cislunar space beyond orbital distances, ...1.00 sievert. The dangers are real and present. Shortly after the Apollo 16 flight to the Moon returned in 1972, for example, a...
