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 …
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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 …
On July 16, 1969, half a billion people watched Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins embark upon their historic mission. Quality of broadcast varied depending on its source. Nafzger hired Lowry Digital, a company known for restoring old Hollywood films, to enhance her images. What was it like to be on the moon? Over …
The Apollo program was an initiative of NASA that saw humans land on the Moon for the first time. Twelve astronauts made this historic journey; six walked its surface. President John F. Kennedy issued a challenge in 1961 for the nation to put a man on the Moon by the end of this decade. Through …
An extensive space program requires considerable finances. Solar panels, dialysis treatment systems and security systems were all created due to or inspired by Apollo missions. This manuscript provides a high-fidelity reconstruction of Project Apollo costs, including annual cost data and program-by-program cost breakdowns. Furthermore, inflation adjustments based on two NASA cost reporting indices have also …
Miller uses a mix of broadcast TV footage, home movies and never-before-heard NASA audio recordings to examine all missions within the Apollo Space Program – winning him an Emmy award in 2011. By forgoing traditional talking heads or Voice-Of-God commentary he adds more context and makes each moment feel more than just about Aldrin, Armstrong …
Some have made claims that Apollo missions’ technological innovations prove that space exploration is unfounded, which they fail to see the point. On later, longer Apollo missions, the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV), used for scientific pursuits by expanding astronaut exploration areas. Deployed from the Lunar Module bay by climbing out its egress ladder, its wheeled …
An ambitious mission to put humans on the moon inspired 400,000 Americans to participate in the Apollo program – this included astronauts, mission controllers and contractors. Apollo 11 completed their sole two-hour moonwalk and deployed experiments, photographed the landscape, displayed an American flag, read an inscription plaque and collected rock samples. Neil Armstrong Neil Armstrong …
