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...
January 2017
Elon Musk and Mars - looking for a snowball effect
... been convinced of the importance of space exploration and settlement ever since watching as a teenager the first televised moonwalk. His astronautical writing includes an online blog Astronautical Evolution and science-fiction novel The Moonstormers...
March 2017
Space research inspires innovation in fashion
... mountain shoes continued to use traditional raw materials - the skins and furs of animal origin. Andy Warhol’s ‘Moonwalk’. The brilliant use of the Pop Art colours spread a new vision to the value of consumer goods and...
December 2017
Panoramas from the surface of the Moon
The first Apollo moonwalk in July 1969 was watched by millions of people all over the world and became a great moment in humankind’s ...
