July 2019
A reluctant American hero
..., Neil Armstrong would coolly take on these dangers and difficulties to show that he was the perfect choice as ‘First Man’. The mission’s landing phase was fraught with challenges. Because of ‘mascon’ (mass concentration) gravity effects from...
January 2019
Space for Art – Love letter to Earth
...an idea of how the Earth and Moon looked from the first manned spacecraft to orbit the Moon. Lovell said, “The vast loneliness...human spirit. Human beings travelled to the Moon for the first time, experienced a totally new perspective of our planet in ...
July 2014
Space 1.0 to Space 3.0: from Gagarin to market growth
...And the realisation of such projects as the first man in space and the first man on the Moon, which had historic significance ...we repeat the breakthrough in space? Such projects as the first man in space… were able once again to restore people’s faith...
01 October 2019
Apollo 11 Owners’ Workshop Manual
... space-related offerings from this publisher, provides a technical celebration of the first manned Moon mission. It is a “50th Anniversary Special Edition” of a book first published in 2009 and features an extra section providing “an insight into the...
June 2017
Automated or human-operated systems?
... NASA’s Mercury programme, which was the United States’ first man-in-space programme, had been designed for fully automatic control...of the necessary life sustainment functions required in manned spacecraft, would that actually further the progress and...
February 2019
Reflections on the future human condition
... such a step? And does it want to? Neil Armstrong’s footprint in the lunar soil photographed during Apollo 11, the first manned lunar mission in July 1969. Equality concerns Transhumanism also raises serious social concerns, specifically with regards...
