01 October 2019
Moonfire: the epic journey of Apollo 11
... space aficionados who were around to experience it, the name of Norman Mailer will forever be associated with the Apollo programme because of his 1970 book A Fire on the Moon (Weidenfeld & Nicolson). Mailer was already a well-known...
01 October 2019
Where Once We Stood - Stories of the Apollo astronauts who walked on the Moon
... repeats to himself. It kind of sums it up nicely”. The book itself is divided into six chapters (on Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, 16 and 17). The Apollo 11 chapter begins with a brief exchange between Armstrong and Aldrin as the former, on hands and knees...
01 October 2019
Returning People to the Moon after Apollo
...?”- is a palpable expression of the author’s frustration and, being one of a select band of British engineers to work on the Apollo programme, he is as entitled as anyone. Reflecting the author’s interest in space history, the first half of the book...
August 2020
Scorpion – a study of the possible
... Scorpion concept was of a crewed general purpose space transport system that could, as a minimum, undertake the post-Apollo programme objectives. The two constraints were, firstly, that it would be solely supported by Skylon for both construction...
April 2021
Managing the Moon - a model for engaging with planetary environments
... only options. The Lunar Limb. A high forward oblique view of Rima Ariadaeus on the Moon, as photographed by the Apollo 10 astronauts in May 1969. Legal personhood As a species, the way we relate to landscapes can be said to represent how we relate...
January 2018
Maximising the economic opportunities of deep space
The space economy has reached a fever pitch not seen in the post-Apollo era. Many new capital sources came into the industry in 2017 via high profile venture capitalists ...
