February 2021
The Space Monuments Men
... (from left to right) with the almost-finished Apollo 11 crew sculptures at the Lundeen Sculpture studio in Loveland, Colorado...the patina surface. The finished sculptures of the three Apollo 11 crew members, ready to be transported for assembly at KSC...
May 2019
Space for Art – Astronauts and artists
... Al Worden’s poetry book ‘Hello Earth - Greetings from Endeavour’. One of his poems ‘Perspective’ is reproduced here. The Apollo 8 crew shared their experience with us visually, through the iconic Earthrise image that I wrote about in my last Space...
January 2019
Space for Art – Love letter to Earth
... connection back to ourselves - to home. There is no better example of this than the ‘Earthrise’ moment experienced by the Apollo 8 crew on 24 December 1968, awestruck by the beauty of their home planet rising above the desolate lunar horizon against...
June 2020
Astrovan II - your ride to space is here
... Building with its police escort carrying crew to the Shuttle pad. The Apollo transfer van was a modified Clark-...MQFs became known to the general public in 1969 when the Apollo 11 crew - Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins - returned from...
July 2019
A reluctant American hero
... lifts off at 13:32 UTC, 16 July 1969, from launch complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. The Apollo 11 crew bought back 21.5 kg of lunar material. They set up a lunar science station and took part in the first basic ...
November 2017
Radiation protection for space colonists and travellers
... of between 1.8 and 11.4 millisieverts. The average annual dose of radiation exposure on Earth is around 3 millisieverts, making the Apollo 11 crew’s dose of 11.4 millisieverts about three years’ worth in nine days. This seems high, but they suffered...
