July 2019
A reluctant American hero
... personalities involved, we have been able to learn more about Armstrong the man and his unique contribution to space exploration. The six Apollo Moon landing missions changed the world in many ways – raising and influencing technical...
July 2020
Investigations into plant growth on the Moon
...Why grow anything on the Moon? Because the Moon is important in the ‘stepping-stone approach’ to future human space exploration missions beyond Earth, which will ultimately need to be self-sufficient. The use of cotton in clothing is well established...
March 2021
Building SLS - a contractual odyssey
... heavy-lift rocket after an independent commission had presented a range of approaches NASA could pursue in human space exploration, including alternatives to the Ares rockets designed for Constellation. One of those alternatives was to design a new...
20 January 2016
Rick Tumlinson Asks and Answers: If Space is So Hard, Why Should We Go there?
An inspirational talk by Rick Tumlinson about the possibilities and potential of space exploration and the importance of breaking boundaries in order to reach new horizons in space. TEDxESA talks more: Geraint “Taff” Morgan Discusses Using Rosetta's...
March 2015
Supplanting the state: rewards and risks
...truly began in 2010, when a private company first successfully launched a round-trip space flight. Commercial innovation in space Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies (“SpaceX”), founded in 2002, made history in December 2010 when it became the...
August 2016
International cooperation drives Germany’s space ambitions
... where we can gain knowledge about the evolution of the Solar System and is also a potential platform for space exploration. ESA German astronaut Alexander Gerst onboard the ISS. Implementation of national objectives in accordance with the German...
