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 ...
18 September 2020
NASA chiefs hint that Artemis will land at Apollo site, not lunar poles
...programme and the first to land astronauts on the Moon since Apollo 17 in 1972. Artemis II is the first crewed flight ... thought. “Just the inspiration of going back to the original Apollo site would be pretty amazing as well and establishing, again, ...
26 February 2018
After Apollo? Richard Nixon and the American Space Program
... John Logsdon transports his readers from the end of the Apollo era to the ‘What Next?’ Space Shuttle era with ...author with intentional understatement. He quotes the president’s suggestion that Apollo 17 might be “the last time” in the century that...
20 July 2018
Apollo-Soyuz Test Project: The NASA Mission Reports
This excellent long-running series of NASA Mission Reports continues with a volume that ties up Apollo coverage with a mission that utilised a spare Apollo spacecraft for an historic political meeting in orbit at the height of the Cold War. The...
