11 August 2025
Saying goodbye to my favourite astronaut
...Center during the mission’s 50th anniversary celebrations. The success of that tribute inspired me to pursue a monument to the Apollo 13 crew. A mutual contact in Chicago, Linda De Bella, who had worked with Captain Lovell, helped connect me with his...
July 2020
Pandemic in space – are we ready?
... around the world can quickly mobilise measures and resources to prevent its further spread. The returning Apollo 11 crew were placed directly in quarantine for three weeks after their Moon landing mission. NASA used a converted...
March 2018
Zero gravity and the human heart
... Washington, D.C. U.S. Government Printing Office, pp. 63-68. 1977. 13 Hoffler GW, Johnson RL. Apollo flight crew cardiovascular evaluations. Biomedical Results of Apollo (NASA SP-368). Edited by Johnston RS. U.S. Government Printing Office. pp. 227...
June 2018
Archaeologist of the future
...the stars is the most important mission of mankind in this century”, which he wrote in letters sent to the Apollo 15 crew members after their mission. Spaceflight is indeed another never-ending journey, an extension of a long tradition of exploration...
September 2023
The Institute of Biomedical Problems - Sixty years of contributing to the development of space biomedicine
.... A unique experience of joint work was gained during the joint Russian-American flight of the Soyuz and Apollo spacecraft crews in 1975. In the course of the long-term missions on the Mir station, joint research programmes were...
September 2017
Australia’s unique space history
... played a critical role in the rescue of the Apollo 13 crew. While the radio telescope itself is not generally accessible...’s second generation of tracking stations The section on the Apollo missions includes the largest lunar sample on public display ...
