by Rob Coppinger | Dec 24, 2008 | Apollo, exploration, History, NASA
Today is the 40th anniversary of NASA’s Apollo 8’s broadcast, a mission that saw humans witness Earth rise for the first timeWithout a Lunar Module (LM), Apollo 8 had a Lunar Test Article that was a representative mass of the LM
by Rob Coppinger | Dec 11, 2008 | Seradata News
Following on from yesterday’s NASA image of the first man, Neil Armstrong, and (for now) last man [on the Moon], Gene Cernan, in an Altair Lunar lander mock-up I found this video clip from the US current affairs show 60 Minutes at this blog that is...
by Rob Coppinger | Dec 10, 2008 | Seradata News
credit: NASA / caption: (L-R) foreground, Neil Armstrong, Gene Cernan, background, Wayne Ottinger, Jack Schmitt NASA has released this image of Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong and Apollo 17 commander Eugene ‘Gene’ Cernan touring one of...
by Rob Coppinger | Mar 25, 2008 | Constellation
Below are my expanded notes from my Thursday 20 March interview with Altair project office deputy manager, Clint Dorris. I haven’t included everything. There were a couple of facts that came up that warrant further investigation for stories on flightglobal.com credit:...
by Rob Coppinger | Dec 14, 2007 | Seradata News
Later today I’ll be interviewing on camera NASA administrator Michael Griffin for 30min about a wide range of subjects before going on to the Geological Society where the Royal Astronomical Society is holding part of its conference on the future use of the Moon...
