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Articles on Apollo 11
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The next generation of spacesuit needs to do more than simply protect an astronaut from the vacuum of space.
Among the missions being planned is a huge helicopter drone to explore Saturn’s moon Titan.
Borman’s professionalism helped the risky Apollo 8 mission become a success.
Some people incorrectly say the Moon landings didn’t happen. But the evidence – and logic – isn’t on their side.
The effects of the pandemic and recent engineering concerns with the new and still unflown Space Launch System may delay the Artemis programme.
An update of 50-year-old regulations has kickstarted research into the next generation of rockets. Powered by nuclear fission, these new systems could be the key to faster, safer exploration of space.
NASA scientist Katherine Johnson was instrumental in getting people to the moon. Here are some of the lessons one mathematics professor believes she taught us all.
Apollo 11 tends to steal the spotlight when it comes to lunar landings. But Apollo 12 was the first mission to make a precise pinpoint landing on the Moon - and without the aid of computers or GPS.
The first generation of spacefarers realised that Earth binds our planetary civilisation into a coherent whole. When, if ever, will politics catch up?
Australia played a vital role in beaming the Apollo 11 Moon landing to the world. But since then we’ve passed up the opportunity to cement our place in exploring outer space.
The future of lunar exploration and space travel will be possible only through advances in robotic design and implementation.
In its Cold War race to the moon, the US played Russian roulette with solar storms.
Armstrong always insisted that he said, ‘That’s one small step for a man.’ Yet everyone omits the ‘a’ when they repeat the quote. A linguist tries to get to the bottom of what happened.
Americans need a new multi-decade Moonshot that will inspire several generations to shoot for the stars and pursue careers in space engineering and exploration.
The first humans to land on the Moon, and the team that got them there, get all the glory. But what about the people who laid the foundation for this effort by mapping the Moon? Who were they?
NASA has made significant steps in making explicit appeals to women to support space exploration, but it might not be doing enough to gather needed political support.
The technologies behind weather forecasting, GPS and even smartphones can trace their origins to the race to the Moon.
Did you know it’s a myth that Teflon came out of NASA?
Here is how our mobile phones compare with the computer that landed man on the moon in 1969.
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Professor of Planetary Sciences and Geosciences, University of Arizona
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Professor of Air and Space Law, University of Mississippi
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Post Doctoral Research Fellow in Space Science, University of Birmingham
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Associate Professor in Archaeology and Space Studies, Flinders University
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Professor of Mathematics, University of Richmond
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Director, Center for National Security Initiatives, and Professor of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder
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Senior lecturer of health promotion, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor of Physics and Astronomy, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Planetarium Director, NASA Airborne Astronomy Ambassador, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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Planetary Scientist, Queensland University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer in Physics, Nottingham Trent University
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Canada Research Chair in Autonomous Space Robotics and Mechatronics, Carleton University
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Professor of Linguistics, University of Chicago
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Professor of Astronomy and Physics, Rochester Institute of Technology
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UKSA Mars Science Fellow, Department of Physics, University of Oxford
