July 2019
A reluctant American hero
... – raising and influencing technical, economic, political, cultural and even environmental issues. These factors, combined with Armstrong’s own story, make historic analysis of the missions truly fascinating. His death in 2012 spurred a more thorough...
March 2017
Space research inspires innovation in fashion
... to revolutionise the world of production and become best sellers on the international market. For example, from Neil Armstrong’s lunar boots came a pair of sneakers with a strong power of absorption thanks to technology transfer. At the same time...
November 2017
Preserving Apollo’s lunar legacy
... developed. Many speak with pride, recognising the world’s first humans to step on the lunar surface - Neil Armstrong and Edwin ‘Buzz’ Aldrin - as true envoys of almost all humankind. And all speak fervently of peace. On 16 July...
19 June 2019
Honeysuckle Creek: the story of Tom Reid, a little dish and Neil Armstrong’s first step
Honeysuckle Creek near Canberra is not exactly a well-known name in the annals of space exploration but like Goldstone, Goonhilly and Jodrell Bank it had its part to play. This book “reveals the pivotal role the tracking station played in the first ...
19 July 2019
The day humanity walked on the Moon
... for some plucky Australian scientists and engineers, located at remote outposts a few hundred miles west of Sydney. Armstrong’s and Aldrin’s awe-inspiring moonwalk was to be televised – to around one-fifth of the world’s population – via the...
June 2018
Striding through space
... as an astronaut encompassed much more than that mission, including serving as the Mission Control communicator for Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin’s moonwalk on the Apollo 11 mission in 1969 and helping to deploy the Hubble Space Telescope...
