October 2020
Space 2069 - back to the Moon, to Mars and beyond
...Moon landing. Celebrations of the 100th anniversary of the landing of Apollo 11 on the Moon were subdued at the International Mars Base ...planned for and appreciated Unlike the Sea of Tranquillity where Apollo 11 landed near the Moon’s equator, it is ...
May 2024
Out of this world – NASA’s textile technicians and innovations for space voyages
... panels of fabric with 3.5 miles (5.6 km) of thread using Singer sewing machines. A scientific marvel of that era was the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC). This computer was as small as a briefcase and portable, had a keyboard, and astronauts could...
April 2025
Lego’s tribute to NASA’s SLS and Artemis
... is unlikely – the mission would mark the first landing of humans on the lunar surface in 55 years. The last Apollo mission (Apollo 17) was in December 1972 - so long ago that today’s kids consider it ancient history. Unfortunately, this is where...
July 2020
Trailblazing STEM education
... Our 110,000 square foot facility is home to the Apollo 12 Command Module, the Orion test capsule, a collection of... Stennis Rocket Center: despite what was portrayed in the Hollywood film Apollo 13. “There was no hugging going on upon the capsule’s ...
November 2020
Walking on the Moon
... direct result of government funding and, undeniably, political motivation to claim a ‘first’ in space exploration. As such, following the Apollo 11 and 12 manned lunar landings of 1969, the first teleoperated rover to reach the lunar surface was the...
November 2019
The economic promise of space
...rocket planes, to Earth orbiting capsules and, finally, to the Apollo lunar missions. John Kennedy’s challenge to land men on the Moon...of taking advantage of the technology developed during the Apollo era, short-sighted US politicians gutted the space...
