29 March 2018
Northern Arizona Space Training
...Modern America’ series, this book is arguably about as ‘niche’ as they get, being dedicated to the geology training of Apollo astronauts in Northern Arizona in the 1960s. The unusual cover picture aptly summarises the contents: it shows a spacesuited...
19 June 2019
Shoot for the Moon
...) – gives some indication of its coverage, but it’s important to note that this is not a blow-by-blow account of the Apollo 11 mission. That consumes only the final 90 pages or so of Part IV, entitled “Down”. Three other parts – “Up”, “Around” and...
01 October 2019
Hasselblad and The Moon Landing
... the lunar environment. The initial ambivalence about photography on the Apollo missions – the science was more important! – comes across...the storyboard of our adventure”. Can we now imagine Apollo 11 without the iconic photos? Perhaps fittingly, but ...
June 2015
Space, secular stagnation, and the economic crisis
... NASA budget is about 0.46% of federal spending. In the Apollo programme’s peak year the $5.9 billion FY-1966 NASA budget was..., titanium, and other resources, first prospected by the Apollo crews, and turning them into spaceships for cargo and ...
