July 2021
Commercial space stations - fulfilling the dream
...to pay for the Shuttle, the ISS and lunar exploration, so the Shuttle was the sacrificial lamb. Now we have the ISS...and how to resolve those kinds of things for long-term human exploration. Why not test components on the ISS first? KAVANDI Well, ...
08 October 2018
A round-up of news from this years IAC
...While already formal partners, NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) agreed to strengthen ties on the ... support the Canadian Space Agency in a new era of lunar exploration,” said Moon Express Founder and CEO Bob Richards. “Successful ...
25 March 2019
Moon isolation experiment begins in Moscow
...at a time on the Moon will no doubt push any lunar explorer to the limit, not only physically, but mentally. As ...a space freighter will deliver food and consumables to the orbital lunar station every 30 days. Then, exactly halfway through the SIRIUS...
20 December 2021
China envisions crewed moon missions by 2030
...Chang'e-5 probes.” Expected to be a kerosene-liquid oxygen fuelled rocket, the former deputy chief designer of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Programme said that the technologies behind the project are already at a mature stage of development and that...
11 December 2020
NASA reveals Artemis Team to train for moon landings
... astronauts on the Artemis Team come from a diverse range of backgrounds, expertise, and experience. The agency’s modern lunar exploration program will land the first woman and next man on the Moon in 2024 and establish a sustainable...
October 2015
How to 3D-print a habitat on Mars
... on the Martian surface. Many of the concepts, like the sintering of regolith, are already being proposed for lunar exploration. The techniques would need to be further developed and tested here on Earth, but this is also a latter part...
