March 2021
Messier 82’s starburst magnetic highway
... HAWC+ instrument (a far-infrared camera and imaging polarimeter) in front of the SOFIA aircraft in the hangar at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center. The instrument is designed to allow total and polarised flux imaging in five broad bands...
February 2022
Revolution and responsibility: the challenges of space
...small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.” Neil Armstrong’s words, spoken on 21 July 1969 from the Sea of ... placing the Sun at the centre of our universe. Common heritage Armstrong’s words now reflect those of René Dubos, widely taken up by...
24 April 2018
The Final Mission: Preserving NASA’s Apollo Sites
... subject is of interest is to consider the question of those first historic footprints on an alien world, made in the lunar dust by Armstrong and Aldrin. If no-one returns to the Moon, they will remain there forever, but what is likely to happen...
18 June 2019
Shoot for the Moon
...learn. Take, for example, a single quote from Armstrong on ‘landing abort rules’: following a long debate about insufficient data during... the landing phase, Armstrong shook his head, saying, “You must think I’m ...
30 September 2019
Apollo 11 Owners’ Workshop Manual
... a number of ‘bitesize’ boxes on crew members and specific technologies. There is even a double-page spread on “The missing A” in Armstrong’s famous speech (one small step for [a] man) based on analyses of the audio waveform from the original...
30 September 2019
Where Once We Stood - Stories of the Apollo astronauts who walked on the Moon
... itself is divided into six chapters (on Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, 16 and 17). The Apollo 11 chapter begins with a brief exchange between Armstrong and Aldrin as the former, on hands and knees, orients himself to exit onto the tiny platform at the...
