25 April 2018
The Final Mission: Preserving NASA’s Apollo Sites
... is to consider the question of those first historic footprints on an alien world, made in the lunar dust by Armstrong and Aldrin. If no-one returns to the Moon, they will remain there forever, but what is likely to happen when the...
01 August 2019
Planetary Echoes: exploring the implications of human settlement in outer space
... content confirms - are far-reaching and fundamental. Within these pages, we hear from such luminaries as Buzz Aldrin, Richard Branson and Norman Foster, which if nothing else provides a breadth of opinion not found in the average...
01 October 2019
Hasselblad and The Moon Landing
... photography on the Apollo missions – the science was more important! – comes across well in this book. As Buzz Aldrin revealed, there was very little input from NASA’s public affairs people, but the pictures “became...
01 October 2019
On the Future: Prospects for Humanity
... Future’ and an admission that he never looks at the Moon “without being reminded of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin”, Rees is keen to restate his views on manned spaceflight. “The practical case for manned spaceflight gets ever...
20 May 2022
Reaching for the Moon
... “engineer” with Sputnik; Explorer 1 held high by Pickering, Van Allen and von Braun; the Mercury 7; Earthrise; Aldrin and the flag… Worse still, they are poorly reproduced on that sepia-toned paper that American...
03 January 2023
Outer Space: 100 Poems
... number of more modern ones reference space exploration. “Dr Rendezvous…”, for example, refers to Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin, renowned for his technical work on spacecraft rendezvous techniques. It starts with his alcoholism, depression and “a left...
