January 2020
Apollo girl - camaraderie and discrimination in the Apollo era
... for me was to design and implement a new real-time orbit determination capability that would accommodate the Apollo and science missions concurrently. Although it was considered heresy to bring users, operators, customers and developers together...
June 2019
A reluctant American hero
..., mobile phones, the worldwide web and advanced robotics resulting. Other advanced technologies were boosted by the Apollo space programme investment, including heat resistant surfaces, fuel cells, vacuum devices, microwave scanners, freeze drying...
November 2017
Preserving Apollo’s lunar legacy
...Space Administration - that “activities in space should be devoted to peaceful purposes for the benefit of all mankind.” The Apollo astronauts left equipment, footprints and numerous symbolic mementos on the Moon. There is no doubt that these objects...
October 2017
Back to the future - heeding the lessons of history
...real correlation between the neglected and under-funded post-Apollo space programme, and the development of global economic afflictions... Moon exploration (bearing more than a passing similarity to Apollo) was released by Boeing in April as a concept ...
December 2017
Panoramas from the surface of the Moon
...’s history. Five more successful landing missions followed Apollo 11 and each successive soacecraft touched down amongst more...what a diverse and geologically interesting location was chosen for Apollo 15. Dave Scott can be seen on the slope of ...
January 2021
Evolution of volatiles on the Moon
...millionth of a metre to the size of a large house. Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan preparing to collect samples 73001 and 73002... are enabling a new generation to conduct new science on Apollo samples. We don’t yet know whether the processes of ...
