June 2015
Innovation at escape velocity: from NASA’s Apollo to SpaceX
... because of a set of circumstances that occurred together: (a) the invention of the IC (which was leveraged by the Apollo program, not created by it); (b) the concurrent demand for chips, creating a production incentive (driven by the Minuteman...
13 September 2016
Scientists prove the Moon was created by a vaporised Earth
... of the Earth and Moon. However in 2001, a revelation occurred as Moon rock samples brought back from the Apollo missions in the 1970s were found to contain nearly identical isotopic compositions when compared to terrestrial rocks. This...
10 October 2018
Apollo Program Development Plan
... organisational systems for large-scale projects. The “Apollo Program Government-Industry Functional Matrix” is almost a work... to Kennedy Space Center. Most people consider the Apollo programme a triumph of engineering and technology, which indeed...
October 2015
Houston, we have a Spaceport
... the home of mission control during the Apollo program, the city of Houston now has its...impact on the world. To address this, university engineering and science programs now partner with business schools, innovation centers, maker labs, incubators,...
