October 2016
Project MOONWALK
... the flexibility to allow an astronaut to inspect a sample in front of the visor. Other tools specifically developed for the MOONWALK were an Astronaut Rescue Stick to be used to help a fallen astronaut get back up on his/her feet, and an Astronaut...
June 2018
Striding through space
...Mission Control communicator for Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin’s moonwalk on the Apollo 11 mission in 1969 and helping...whereas McCandless had a red stripe on each limb, like Apollo moonwalker Commanders. After an EVA of almost six hours, the two ...
08 February 2016
Comparing Notes: Behind the Scenes of Space Travel
... for their flight to the Moon and was present in Mission Control, guiding the astronauts through their moonwalks as well as the entire mission. André Kuipers is the first Dutch ESA astronaut with two space missions...
June 2019
A reluctant American hero
..., Armstrong appears to have fully appreciated this exploration impulse and the evolutionary step-forward that his moonwalk and spaceflight achievement represented for history. Neil Armstrong speaks at the Apollo 40th anniversary celebration held...
19 July 2019
The day humanity walked on the Moon
...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.... But the eager astronauts began preparing for their moonwalk some six hours ahead of schedule after deciding to...
29 March 2018
Radio Astronomer
... of Bolton’s involvement with the Apollo programme in that Parkes was famously used as a receiver for the Apollo 11 moonwalk (as told in ‘The Dish’). Asked about the possibility of a malfunction by an ABC reporter at the time, Bolton replied “We have...
