June 2015
Preventing pilot spatial disorientation
... of aircraft, and to any pilot. One of the most famous of these incidents involved the death of John F. Kennedy Jr. in 1999. Kennedy took off from Essex county airport in Fairfield, NJ on a flight to Martha’s Vineyard. It is believed that he lost...
19 June 2019
The Space-Age Presidency of John F Kennedy: a Rare Photographic History
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 ...
July 2019
Lessons from our first race to the Moon
... by the Soviet Union to achieve a similar goal. President John F Kennedy kicked off the Moon landing race in May 1961 with his...human space programmes and robotic Moon programmes to President Kennedy’s objective. Thus Gemini was designed to prepare ...
April 2020
Space Florida - gateway to an interstellar future
... Force provided Cape Canaveral facilities, NASA’s John F Kennedy Space Center, and their contractors privided thousands... satellites for its broadband constellation. We watched as the Kennedy Space Center’s contractor workforce all but shut its doors...
April 2025
Racing to the Moon
... for a sustained human presence in deep space. While the Space Race didn’t become ‘official’ until President John F Kennedy’s famous speech in 1961, it actually began immediately after World War II. Showing off technological and implicit military...
19 July 2019
The day humanity walked on the Moon
...the decision had been made and the following year president John F Kennedy told the world that the US "should commit itself...more enjoyed," said Collins in a recent interview with Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Cabana while reminiscing about his ...
