Both Stephen Alexander’s elementary teachers and televised NASA missions throughout the ‘60s influenced his journey into science. He recounts NASA’s legacy, 65 years after the agency’s inception.
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Articles on Apollo program
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The Artemis II mission is scheduled for launch in late 2024 and is a critical step towards NASA’s goals of establishing a permanent human presence on and near the Moon.
With more than 100 lunar missions planned in coming years, space junk near the Moon could become an issue for humanity. No agency tracks lunar space junk, so two astronomers decided to do it themselves.
In June 1972, the first United Nations conference on the human environment coincided with the release of David Bowie’s iconic Ziggy Stardust album. Both still feel disturbingly relevant today
John Glenn would have turned 100 on July 18, 2021. Today’s space program is a giant leap more inclusive than when he made his pioneering orbit of the Earth in 1962.
A systems engineering expert applies the same method NASA’s Project Apollo engineers used to offer a systematic approach to deciding on school reopening at a local level.
Is it possible to plan for the unforeseen? Some basic principles allow careful preparation to be reconciled with quickly shifting circumstances.
The Apollo missions to the Moon helped our understanding of the cosmic origin of craters on our lunar neighbour, and here on Earth.
The technologies behind weather forecasting, GPS and even smartphones can trace their origins to the race to the Moon.
As commercial spaceflight companies lower the cost of reaching space, nations can launch more missions. But while astronauts are great for whipping up enthusiasm, is a manned mission worth the cost?
This year the Apollo 11 mission turns 50 - but what does the future hold for the Moon? The ephemeral shadows cast by human artefacts may soon be joined by more permanent scars of lunar mining.
Objects left on the Moon are not just abandoned rockets and rovers. There is a lot of historic and sentimental memorabilia. Some of it hints at a mission that the first Moonwalkers almost forgot.
The private space race is about to take another great leap as Israel sends a private lander to the moon.
The new film is a down-to-Earth portrayal of astronaut Neil Armstrong and our complex relationship with the Moon.
The moon is our closest neighbour and our best hope for building capacity to explore space.
Today many Americans see universities negatively. But, as the dean of USC Dornsife argues, academia has a unique capacity to solve society’s problems. Yes, astrophysicists can help law enforcement.
Often eclipsed by Apollo 11, the final manned moonshot left far more than bootprints in the dust. In these troubling times, it also left us with a lasting message of hope.
Letters from would-be girl astronauts in the 1960s tell part of the complicated story of sexism – in both NASA and the US at large – at the dawn of the space age.
The story of how water got inside the moon could also help us understand the origin of water on Earth.
The Last Man on the Moon is much more than a biographical documentary – it is a gripping account of human endeavour.
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Associate Professor in Archaeology and Space Studies, Flinders University
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Associate Professor of Critical Media Practices and Digital Humanities, University of Colorado Boulder
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Professor of Planetary Science and Astrobiology, Birkbeck, University of London; Honorary Associate Professor, UCL
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Post Doctoral Research Fellow in Space Science, University of Birmingham
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Postdoctoral research associate, The Open University
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Associate Professor in Earth System Science, University of Exeter
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Adjunct associate, Flinders University
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University of Kent
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Professor of Space Physics, Lancaster University
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Senior Lecturer in Physics, Nottingham Trent University
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Doctoral Candidate in Energy and Economics, UCL
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Planetarium Director, NASA Airborne Astronomy Ambassador, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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Professor and Program Director, Systems Engineering and Design, University of Michigan
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Professor of Planetary Science, University of Arizona
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Associate Professor, History, Lund University
