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 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 Rob Coppinger | Mar 31, 2009 | Apollo, Ares, ESA, exploration, History, International Space Station, NASA, Space tourism
You can find Flightglobal.com’s news and blog page (or landing page as its known in the jargon) for the 25th National Space Symposium right here. You can create you’re own landing pages for any aerospace topic you want by going to this page and typing into...
by Rob Coppinger | Dec 24, 2008 | Apollo, exploration, History, NASA
Today is the 40th anniversary of NASA’s Apollo 8’s broadcast, a mission that saw humans witness Earth rise for the first timeWithout a Lunar Module (LM), Apollo 8 had a Lunar Test Article that was a representative mass of the LM
by Rob Coppinger | Dec 19, 2008 | History, NASA, Space Shuttle
So this NASA RFI on sending Orbiter’s to museums has done the rounds on the internet but the reality is that the fleet won’t be retired in 2010. Why, you may ask?It is as simple as this The end of the Space Shuttle programme is going to see thousands lose...
by Rob Coppinger | Dec 5, 2008 | Apollo, Constellation, exploration, History, International Space Station
Following on from the comments made about the last post concerning Hyperbola’s lunar architecture I thought it a good idea to set out a few more parameters and set the scene in a bit more detail before going forward (aka do some flaming mitigation). And I need a...
