29 March 2018
Northern Arizona Space Training
...Modern America’ series, this book is arguably about as ‘niche’ as they get, being dedicated to the geology training of Apollo astronauts in Northern Arizona in the 1960s. The unusual cover picture aptly summarises the contents: it shows a spacesuited...
18 June 2019
Shoot for the Moon
...) – gives some indication of its coverage, but it’s important to note that this is not a blow-by-blow account of the Apollo 11 mission. That consumes only the final 90 pages or so of Part IV, entitled “Down”. Three other parts – “Up”, “Around” and...
30 September 2019
Hasselblad and The Moon Landing
... the lunar environment. The initial ambivalence about photography on the Apollo missions – the science was more important! – comes across...the storyboard of our adventure”. Can we now imagine Apollo 11 without the iconic photos? Perhaps fittingly, but ...
June 2015
Space, secular stagnation, and the economic crisis
... NASA budget is about 0.46% of federal spending. In the Apollo programme’s peak year the $5.9 billion FY-1966 NASA budget was..., titanium, and other resources, first prospected by the Apollo crews, and turning them into spaceships for cargo and ...
February 2016
Mining outer space may be cool but is it legal?
... celestial bodies, is not subject to national appropriation by claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means. The Apollo Moon landings brought back 842 pounds of lunar material under strict NASA control NASA claims that...
April 2017
Surviving radiation for space colonisation
...will need to survive on the surface with little protection The Apollo astronauts, the only humans so far to travel outside of LEO,... received from about 1.6 mSv to 5.8 mSv - with Apollo 14 receiving 11.4 mSv from solar storms which occur when the...
