November 2017
Radiation protection for space colonists and travellers
...’t normally harmful to us. A computer-generated visualisation of the Apollo 8 spacecraft in orbit around the Moon, with Earth rising...over the horizon. The thin metal shell of the Apollo capsules protected the astronauts from most types of radiation on...
March 2018
Zero gravity and the human heart
...on Earth, the slow heart rate on the ECG of Apollo 8 astronaut, Bill Anders, would have suggested vagotonia. Laboratory ... Nicogossian AE. In-flight lower limb volume measurement. In: The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project Medical Report (NASA SP-411). Edited ...
October 2021
Space in the movies – lessons for spacefarers
... important answers. So, let’s start with this: what’s the most realistic portrayal of life in space in popular cinema? Apollo 13 film promotional poster. Realism candidates Human nature won’t change in space, so the idea of an Empire that becomes...
16 July 2018
Piercing the Horizon: the story of Visionary NASA Chief Tom Paine
... a truce”, offering the gesture of leaving a personal memento of JFK (a tie-clip) on the lunar surface during the Apollo 11 mission. Teddy was not cooperative and Paine soon realised that “the Kennedys had no real interest...
19 June 2019
Honeysuckle Creek: the story of Tom Reid, a little dish and Neil Armstrong’s first step
...history”. It begins with the author’s memories of the Apollo 11 landing and his relationship with Tom Reid’s daughter:...placed the radio astronomy antenna at Parkes at the forefront of Apollo communications, he thought “This isn’t right: wrong place; ...
19 June 2019
The Space-Age Presidency of John F Kennedy: a Rare Photographic History
...history”. It begins with the author’s memories of the Apollo 11 landing and his relationship with Tom Reid’s daughter:...placed the radio astronomy antenna at Parkes at the forefront of Apollo communications, he thought “This isn’t right: wrong place; ...
