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...
April 2026
Apollo lunar rover - the Lego version
... would-be purchasers gave up”. Under the largely inert conditions of the lunar environment, the LRVs and other Apollo hardware could theoretically remain untouched and unchanged for centuries. But if mankind is to bestow a fitting tribute on the...
November 2026
Beyond footprints - what Apollo really taught us about becoming a spacefaring civilisation
...reusable launch systems all suggest that spaceflight may finally be returning to the infrastructural logic glimpsed during Apollo’s aftermath. For the first time in decades, the discussion is no longer simply about missions. It is about supply chains...
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...
