01 October 2019
Hasselblad and The Moon Landing
Space aficionados will know that the camera of choice for the Apollo Moon missions was the Hasselblad 500EL, a bulky, large-format camera that captured the pictures which have ...
November 2017
Preserving Apollo’s lunar legacy
...’s quest to explore space but perished before the first Moon landing was achieved. Imagine if these first off-world footprints,...are built upon the legacy and lessons of those Moon landings. To fully understand those lessons and the sacrifices ...
July 2019
Lessons from our first race to the Moon
... to the lunar surface. The 50th anniversary is a good opportunity to reflect on the first and hugely successful Apollo Moon landing of 1969 and, at the same time, on the failed attempts by the Soviet Union to achieve a similar goal. President...
October 2020
Space 2069 - back to the Moon, to Mars and beyond
... future in space over the next 50 years up to the 100th anniversary of the Moon landing. Celebrations of the 100th anniversary of the landing of Apollo 11 on the Moon were subdued at the International Mars Base despite the optimism on display in the...
October 2020
Is NASA’s Artemis Accords agreement Moon-proof?
... Apollo, so the name is a neat link back to the original Moon landing programme. In contrived acronym speak, that only an organisation like NASA could... two countries which had the capability to land on the Moon - the Soviet Union and the United States...
February 2021
The Space Monuments Men
...he told me it would be impossible to build 12 monuments in the nine months we had before the 50th anniversary of the first Moon landing, but if I focused in on the crew of Apollo 11 and could find the funding, he would be willing to put the monuments...
