Property developer Greg Lach has dedicated much of his free time and attention to restoring images from Apollo missions using modern photographic restoration techniques, giving new life to these historic photographs. Photo 5903 features the iconic “Man on the Moon” image of Buzz Aldrin descending the Lunar Module ladder. This picture has been color balanced…
The Artemis mission will demonstrate the crewed capabilities of NASA’s massive Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft. Furthermore, this will carry on a tradition of sending spacecraft carrying souvenirs from Earth back to the Moon. Artemis I is an essential step toward building a sustainable lunar exploration program and providing insights that will inform…
Virtual reality offers players an unprecedented experience of the historic Apollo 11 mission. This game takes them through each step, starting from witnessing its preparation for launch all the way to landing safely on Mars. Players can take control of a command module, land on the moon and deploy lunar experiments before returning safely back…
Apollo 11 marked the culmination of a decade-long program designed to demonstrate human survival in space, taking eight days from landing at Earth to return safely with both Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on board as its crew members. Armstrong and Aldrin completed numerous scientific experiments upon departing the LM Eagle, such as installing seismometers,…
Quarantine may be unpleasant for anyone to endure, but in 1969 it was an essential safeguard against transmissible lunar bacteria and organisms being introduced back into Earth by NASA’s space pioneers. NASA had designated this polished aluminum trailer the Mobile Quarantine Facility (MQF), where they would spend three weeks. The Mobile Quarantine Facility (MQF) In…
On July 21, 1969, Neil Armstrong made history when he first set foot onto the lunar surface near Sea of Tranquility and famously declared: ‘That is one small step for man but one giant leap for mankind.” Armstrong hails from Wapakoneta, Ohio and graduated with an engineering degree from Purdue University. Later he worked at…
The Apollo program marked humanity’s first journey beyond Earth orbit and into another world. NASA astronauts made historic steps onto the Moon’s surface and collected samples from its soil. NASA designed its rocket to use a special descent engine that could be throttled for optimal power usage; more power was reserved for final plunge and…
President Kennedy issued an unprecedented challenge for America – to send a man to the Moon and back before this decade was up – yet many problems had to be overcome for it to become a reality. Before the Apollo missions, scientists knew little of what lay beyond our planet’s atmosphere and surface. But after…
At 200,000 miles from Earth, astronaut Jack Swigert and his crew aboard Apollo 13 found themselves in an undeniably perilous situation aboard their spacecraft when an explosion tore it apart. Before real-time computers took up entire rooms, NASA engineers at Grumman and TRW (both heritage Northrop Grumman companies) employed a smaller computer to keep their…
