For as long as humans have looked up, the Moon has refused to be just one thing. To some it was a god. To others, a calendar. To sailors, a guide. To farmers, a clock. To astronomers, a world. And to NASA, just before Apollo, it became something even stranger, …
How One Camera Changed NASA and How We Saw the World
Without doubt some of the most stunning and famous photos ever taken came from the Apollo missions and without them they wouldn’t have had the same public support or iconic stature that they have today and nearly all of the were taken by one make of camera. But those pictures …
TV From The Moon – Apollo’s Live TV Cameras
The fateful first steps of Neil Armstrong on to the lunar surface and his immortal words, “That’s One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind” was broadcast to a worldwide audience of about 600 million and yet it was touch and go as to whether it would be …
What They Really Had Planned for Apollo
We all know what the major goal of the Apollo program was, to put a man on the moon by the end of the 1960s basically to beat the Soviets and prove that the capitalist system was better than the communist one. But once that’s done what would happen the …
How NASA’s New Spacesuit Could Stall the 2024 Artemis Moon Landings.
They are as important as the rockets the astronauts fly in and a miracle of materials and clothing engineering. Without them, we would not have been able to walk on the moon but the current generation of spacesuit’s or Extravehicular Mobility Units which were designed in the late 1970s are …
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter – Eyes on the Moon
With the new goal of NASA to get humans back on to the moon by 2024 with the Artemis program, we are back to a similar situation to when Apollo was getting ready to go to the moon in the 60’s. Basically, we needed to find somewhere to land and …
Nuking the moon – The Secret USAF Project A119
Probably one of the most inspirational moments in human history was the landing on the moon by Apollo 11 and Niel Armstrong’s first steps on the surface but maybe if project A119 had gone ahead almost 10 years earlier, things might not have looked quite so rosy knowing that the …
What Did We Leave on the Moon & What Will Happen to it in the Future?
With the surprise landing of the Chinese rover Yutu 2 or Jade rabbit 2 and the Chang’e-4 lander on the far side of the moon on 3rd Jan 2019, I thought it would be interesting to see just what sort of things we’ve actually put up there on the moon …
What Were the Real Reasons Why We Stopped Going to the Moon
Next year, 2019, will be the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 landing on the moon, since then just 12 men have walked on the lunar surface in 6 missions covering a period lasting less than 3 years. The Apollo project at it’s peak employed over 400,000 people in some …
How Will We Save the Apollo & Other Lunar Landing Sites?
With the 50th anniversary of the first manned moon landing coming up and the prospect of having new lunar explorers both state-sponsored and private companies, how do you protect what are arguably some of the most important scientific and culturally historic sites in human history? You would think that the …
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