by David Todd | Oct 10, 2012 | ESA, exploration, NASA, SLS, Technology
The 63rd International Astronautical Congress (IAC) took place in Naples, at its Congress centre and exhibition venue at Mostra d’Oltremare during the first week of October. The IAC Congress broke records with its attendance with 4,000 excecutives, scientists,...
by David Todd | Oct 9, 2012 | Apollo, SLS, Space Shuttle
In its quest to pursue manned space exploration to the Moon, asteroids and onwards to Mars, NASA began its Space Launch System heavy lift launch vehicle programme after Project Constellation was cancelled. While the initial Block 1 SLS design has...
by David Todd | Aug 22, 2012 | Apollo, China, Constellation, exploration, JAXA, NASA, Seradata News, SLS, Technology
Two years ago, the space team at the Ascend consultancy (now part of Flightglobal) did an analysis on which nation was likely to be the first to return men to the moon. In the analysis notional odds were assigned to each which country as a measure of our estimation...
