18 March 2022
Rocket roll time for NASA’s new Moonshot
... with Orion spacecraft atop arrived at Launch Pad 39B in preparation for a final test before its Artemis I Moon mission. I was among 300 media people on site for this momentous occasion and in scenes I had not witnessed...
September 2017
Engaging the private sector in space exploration
...: PTScientists, Germany, in partnership with Audi AG, propose a European privately-funded Moon surface mission. This Moon mission is a promising opportunity to establish a commercial lunar transport service in Europe. Such capability would enable...
August 2019
Lessons from the Sun
... at bay. Industry learned and moved on. NASA convened a workshop to decide how to deal with the planned Apollo 17 Moon mission, should McMath Region 11976 reappear, and, although it did not, the event became a benchmark for astronaut...
November 2020
The alien hunter’s field manual
... by orange and green halos. Case 1 is relevant for combining the LUVOIR and OWL-MOON missions, Case 2 corresponds to the RST and HabEx missions. In Case 3, relevant for JWST and SETI large scale technosignature searches, the survey...
10 January 2024
NASA announces delays to astronaut lunar missions
..., and each flight that follows, to reduce risk for future Moon missions," said Catherine Koerner, associate administrator, Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "We are resolving challenges associated...
01 October 2019
Hasselblad and The Moon Landing
... the camera of choice for the Apollo Moon missions was the Hasselblad 500EL, a bulky, ...camera in the lunar environment. The initial ambivalence about photography on the Apollo missions – the science was more important! – comes across well in this ...
