23 February 2018
UK to host world’s first commercial deep-space communications station
...-communication site located in Cornwall, UK that was once used to beam iconic images to TV viewers of events such as the Apollo 11 Moon landing, will help create the world’s first commercial deep-space communications station, capable of tracking...
11 October 2018
Apollo Program Development Plan
...structure”. The volume is a facsimile of NASA’s plan for Apollo dated 15 January 1965, which comprises 17 sections and a ...reported to Kennedy Space Center. Most people consider the Apollo programme a triumph of engineering and technology, which indeed...
25 September 2020
Apollo’s Legacy - Perspectives on the Moon Landings
...be written by a serious space historian shows that the Apollo story has truly come of age. While there will ... celebrate the technology, the bravery and the political will that made Apollo possible, it is time to realise that it is increasingly ‘just...
19 September 2023
Apollo Remastered
... documentary films and books. Occasionally, a coffee-table tome on Apollo makes us stop and marvel at our exploration of this nearest ... best from Mercury and Gemini for context but mostly covering Apollo 7 to 17. There follows a short chapter on the ...
25 April 2018
The Final Mission: Preserving NASA’s Apollo Sites
... sites, legal frameworks for historic preservation and some ‘success stories’ in space preservation (which of course includes Apollo capsules and other equipment in museums around the world). This is an academic but readable book. It has a 12-page...
01 October 2019
The Apollo Chronicles: Engineering America’s First Moon Missions
...facts, it reveals a little-known aspect of the Apollo simulators: they failed to simulate the communications signal delay ... a thought-provoking observation on the heritage of the Apollo engineers: although their data tapes, photographs and blueprints ...
