If the mission goes well, private company Axiom Space will move on to building a space station.
- Senior Lecturer in Physics, Nottingham Trent University
The mission is set to launch in March 2022. Here’s what you need to know.
Una estación espacial en la Luna podría construirse con hormigón lunar.
A space station on the Moon could be built out of lunar concrete.
No new records have been broken and no new technology has been tested.
China’s space programme is going from strength to strength.
Nasa’s sending its first missions to Earth’s twin since 1990.
Three private companies have recently been commissioned to develop nuclear fission thermal rockets for use in orbit around the Moon.
Weather on other planets and moons can be much more extreme than on Earth.
SpaceX is due to test fly its Starship in the coming days.
India may land on the Moon this coming year, while Nasa will launch its new, powerful rocket farther into space than any other human rated spacecraft.
Un nouveau président va arriver à la Maison Blanche et un nouvel administrateur à la NASA. Quels changements peut-on anticiper dans la politique spatiale américaine ?
With a new president in the White House and NASA’s chief administrator resigning we can expect changes to space policy.
Neowise has an orbit of almost 6800 years, meaning that the last generation of people to see it would have lived during the 5th millennium BC.
To intercept the ISS, the capsule must match the station’s speed, altitude and inclination.
From the Moon’s size to the first calculator, the ancients made some jawdropping discoveries without modern technology.
Solar activity is sometimes blamed for climate change but the data suggests otherwise.
From alien life to human spaceflight, 2020 may deliver some exciting news.
Collecting samples from Mars and brining them back to Earth will be a hugely complicated task, but it may be our best bet of finding alien life.
Following announcements by France and the US, NATO is expected to start using space weapons.
Our own planet shows that environmental modification is possible on a planetary scale in quite a short span of time.
An equation from the 1890s can help us work out how high Hughes can actually reach with his homemade rocket.
Listen up, conspiracy theorists – it is virtually impossible that there could be alien visitors on Earth.
Any base on the moon would need very thick walls.
There is currently no launch vehicle capable of launching astronauts to the moon in one go.
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