by Rob Coppinger | Jun 12, 2009 | Apollo, exploration, History, NASA
Three weeks and forty years ago today the NASA capsule pictured above was orbiting the Moon, on 22 May 1969. Apollo 10 and its crew, Eugene “Gene” Cernan, John Young and Thomas Stafford paved the way for the 20 July 1969 landing of Apollo 11 astronauts...
by Rob Coppinger | Jun 9, 2009 | ESA, exploration, Technology
A lunar landing technology demonstrator could be flown in 2012 if a €1 million ($1.39 million) German Aerospace Center (DLR) feasibility study awarded to EADS Astrium is successful The €1 million study starts this month and lasts for nine months, ending with a...
by David Todd | May 26, 2009 | Constellation, COTS, exploration, International Space Station, NASA, Orion, Russia, Soyuz
Poor Charles Bolden. If he does actually become NASA administrator he’ll have a flat budget, the job of retiring the world’s only reusable spaceplane (and a few thousand workers), preside over a divisive review of US human spaceflight...
by David Todd | May 11, 2009 | Apollo, exploration, History, NASA
Flightglobal.com is just a couple of years old (and Hyperbola even younger!) but its namesake Flight International magazine celebrated its centenary last year and that print title featured articles about spaceflight before it was technically feasible and reported on...
by David Todd | May 11, 2009 | ESA, exploration
Oh well, so much for the UK reserve astronaut theory…ESA PR 09-2009. ESA began the search for new astronauts in 2008, calling for applications from talented European citizens who wished to join the European Astronaut Corps to conduct future missions to the...
by David Todd | May 8, 2009 | Ares, Constellation, COTS, exploration, NASA, Orion, Technology
On 8 May 2009 former Lockheed Martin chairman Norman Augustine spoke to the media on a NASA teleconference about the Review of United States Human Space Flight Plans he is going to lead with a panel of about ten that Augustine said is likely to include former...
