Apollo: December 2008 Archives

Today is the 40th anniversary of NASA's Apollo 8's broadcast, a mission that saw humans witness Earth rise for the first time

Without a Lunar Module (LM), Apollo 8 had a Lunar Test Article that was a representative mass of the LM

 

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 all about Apollo and Constellation

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 the agency's Altair Lunar Lander mock-ups at its Johnson Space Center on 9 December. Behind Cernan is Harrison 'Jack' Schmitt, Cernan's fellow Apollo 17 crew member and lunar module pilot 

credit: JAXA

Following on from the comments made about the last post concerning Hyperbola's lunar architecture I thought it a good idea to set out a few more parameters and set the scene in a bit more detail before going forward (aka do some flaming mitigation). And I need a bit more time to assess the Bush 41 Space Exploration Initiative reports and Bush 43 Vision for Space Exploration's Constellation programme Lunar Architecture Team stuff as well