23 February 2018
UK to host world’s first commercial deep-space communications station
... site located in Cornwall, UK that was once used to beam iconic images to TV viewers of events such as the Apollo 11 Moon landing, will help create the world’s first commercial deep-space communications station, capable of tracking future missions...
19 July 2019
The day humanity walked on the Moon
... Kennedy’s objective would be fulfilled. Incidentally, this momentous moon landing occasion may not have have been captured at all, ... chance to head NASA’s final mission of the Apollo program – Apollo 17 – as its commander; the position instead went...
July 2019
A reluctant American hero
... Armstrong, and the legendary space mission that led him to become the first man to walk on the Moon. The Apollo 11 Moon landing story and crew commander Neil Armstrong’s ‘reluctant hero’ role in its success is almost half a century...
February 2019
Building a space museum from scratch
...years old, in 1969, around the time of the Apollo 11 Moon landing. The staff had put up a few Letraset printed ...leave Earth, it was a Lunar Module Descent Engine, the type you land on the Moon with! “Oh my gosh,” I thought. “I have my museum right...
December 2014
Ready for Mars? From Mars-500 to zero-gravity medical issues
...the 1960s, following the euphoria of the Apollo 11 Moon-landing success, Wernher von Braun seriously anticipated .... The dangers are real and present. Shortly after the Apollo 16 flight to the Moon returned in 1972, for example, a massive CME occurred ...
01 October 2019
Moonfire: the epic journey of Apollo 11
July 2019 marked the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing. For those space aficionados who were around to experience it, the name of Norman Mailer will forever be associated with the Apollo programme because of his 1970 book A Fire on the...
