Apollo 11

Here are four of my short articles that you may find interesting. My photo. British spelling. 1 / 4 Have you come across a stone like this? I live by the beach in the country of Scotland. Over the years, I have come across many stones on the shoreline that…

On July 20, 1969, humanity made history when NASA’s Apollo 11 mission successfully landed two astronauts on the surface of the moon. The momentous event was watched by millions of people around the world, and it marked a major milestone in space exploration. But even today, more than 50 years…

Margaret Hamilton is a computer scientist and systems engineer who made significant contributions in the field of software engineering during the 1960s and 1970s. She is most famous for her leadership of the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) programming team at NASA. Hamilton was born in 1936 in Indiana, but later…

I hope you find them thought-provoking and knowledgeable. 1 of 4 British spelling. Oxygen transformed our planet. An adult human inhales about 11,000 litres of air daily; 21% of that daily intake is oxygen. We use some of that oxygen to keep us alive; body cells depend on it for energy and growth. If…

I can’t see the human race getting very far from our planet.

“We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.” — John F. Kennedy, September 12, 1962 At 20:17 GMT, the Eagle lunar module landed on the Moon and then Neil Armstrong declared a sentence…

How the U.S. Shaped the Message of Apollo 11 Teasel Muir-Harmony’s Operation Moonglow: A Political History of Project Apollo is the story of the space race between the U.S. and Russia in the years leading up to Apollo 11’s successful mission to the moon. But it’s also the tale of…

By David Chandler and Don Davis The belief that the Apollo landings were a hoax seems to increase with each new generation to emerge since the Moon landings took place. We are half way from the time of Apollo 11 to the time when no one with living memories of…

One Man’s Account of Covering the First Moon Landing David Chudwin’s memoir I Was a Teenage Space Reporter is a fun, informative trip back in time to July of 1969, when David and his best friend Marvin Rubenstein (also a talented author) wangled their way into a trip to Florida…