Tag: Alice Gorman - article author
After 45 years, the 5-billion-year legacy of the Voyager 2 interstellar probe is just beginning
Image: NASA / JPL
On August 20 1977, 45 years ago, an extraordinary spacecraft left this planet on a journey like no other. Voyager 2 was going...
Apes, robots and men: the life and death of the first space chimp
Picture: NASA
On January 31, 1961, an intrepid chimpanzee called Ham was launched on a rocket from Cape Canaveral in the United States, and returned...
Can the Moon be a person? As lunar mining looms, a change of perspective could protect Earth’s ancient companion
The Apollo 17 lunar lander surrounded by tyre tracks. NASA
Everyone is planning to return to the Moon. At least 10 missions by half a dozen...
Hidden women of history: Leila Waddell, Australian violinist, philosopher of magic and fearless rebel
Leila Waddell performing during the Rites of Eleusis.
Leila Waddell (1880-1932) was a country girl from Bathurst, NSW, who entered the world stage as...
Footprints on the Moon and cemeteries on Mars: interview with space archaeologist Alice Gorman
Perhaps in 50 more years we will be sick of hearing stories
from people who have travelled to the moon and back.
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