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...
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...
December 2014
Ready for Mars? From Mars-500 to zero-gravity medical issues
... the ever-present worry of damage to the spacecraft or systems failures. Even the experienced and hardened Apollo 12 moonwalker Alan Bean admitted to this after his Apollo and Skylab missions: “I felt real fear out there...
November 2016
Emergency dental treatment on way to Mars
... orbiting crews. Accidents do happen. Charlie Duke getting up after having fallen over on the Moon during an Apollo 16 moonwalk in 1972 (Figure 2a), and an imaginary accident in a lab on Mars in which the crew member loses one of his dental...
