November 2020
Walking on the Moon
... a second rover from the former Soviet Union, followed in January 1973. Significantly, in terms of the history of space exploration, the Lunokhods remained the only teleoperated rovers to be sent to another planetary body until NASA’s Sojourner rover...
October 2024
Lunar construction with regolith and robots
... start of a new era for space exploration. Increasingly, space missions are being led by commercial entities.... Meanwhile, national governments across the world continue to explore outer space, as demonstrated by China’s lunar sample return mission ...
13 August 2018
NASA to partner with six US companies to develop space exploration technologies
... Jim Bridenstine, "These awards focus on technology collaborations with the commercial space sector that leverage emerging markets and capabilities to meet NASA's exploration goals. While these key technologies will support NASA's science and human...
June 2015
Innovation at escape velocity: from NASA’s Apollo to SpaceX
... breakthroughs such as occurred with ICs in the 1950s and 1960s into a programmatic framework. In those early days of space exploration, Silicon Valley and the entrepreneurial movement it helped bring about did not exist in the US. In the 21st...
March 2016
Space industrialisation needs balanced legal and policy approach
.... The result was HR 1508, a bill that attempted to carve a law that would satisfy the needs of emerging space exploration companies whilst simultaneously heeding the international law obligations of the United States. HR 1508 was more successful...
March 2017
Space is open for business
...project manager of the World Food Programme, believes that it would be unrealistic to ask mankind to stop dreaming about space exploration for two decades until we solve our problems on Earth. “Incredible technological advances in the past years have...
