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...
19 July 2019
The day humanity walked on the Moon
... on this famous mission. Collins, who is now 88, turned down the chance to head NASA’s final mission of the Apollo program – Apollo 17 – as its commander; the position instead went to Eugene Cernan, who became the last person to follow in Armstrong...
13 May 2019
New study suggests Moon is still tectonically active
..., some that were recorded in the last 5 years of the Apollo missions registered up to 5.5 on the Richter scale. Back on ...US and Canada, have used a problem-solving computer program called a relocation algorithm to help determine whereabouts the ...
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...
24 August 2020
NASA receives full-sized lunar lander mock-up from Blue Origin
... Draper, who built the guidance computer for the Apollo program, will lead development of the descent guidance system,... “It will inform our design and requirements earlier in the program allowing us to accelerate our development and meet the 2024 ...
