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...
July 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...
February 2021
The Space Monuments Men
...were the creators of an incredible single bronze sculpture of Apollo 13’s Jack Swigert that I remembered seeing in the rotunda...me to see if there had been monuments to any other Apollo astronauts. Sculptor Joey Bainer at work beside a sculpted head of...
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 ...
