This film utilizes decades-old found footage from the actual Apollo 18 mission that never ended up taking place, featuring Commander Dick Gordon, Command Module Pilot Vance Brand and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt as members of its crew. Long Island Museum exhibit includes the real lunar lander which was fully loaded for flight before an…
President Kennedy challenged NASA to land astronauts on the Moon by 1961; with help from Saturn rockets, Apollo made this goal come true. Apollo spacecraft were known as Command Module and Lunar Module and could hold three astronauts at once, disintegrating into two parts for lunar landings before returning to orbit. Apollo 11 The first…
Plastics can be divided into various classes according to the chemical process used during their creation and their physical properties, including their colour, clarity and flexibility. Naphtha is decomposed thermally in a steam cracker to produce light hydrocarbons known as major intermediaries such as olefins and aromatics that will then be fed into a factory…
No doubt modern smartphones are far more powerful than the computers used on Apollo missions, yet such comparisons underplay the amazing technology employed by NASA during these missions to get us there. MIT-designed Apollo Guidance Computer was crashproof, operating according to a hierarchical system which allocated energy based on program importance; this allowed energy distribution…
Before recently, Venus was considered a low priority planet to explore; however, the discovery of phosphine on Venus has reignited interest in this hellish realm. Ancients believed Venus had an environment similar to Earth with jungle-like foliage and carbonated oceans, but radio observations of brightness temperatures suggested otherwise – suggesting its surface must have been…
