Apollo: March 2009 Archives

credit Space Foundation / caption Website homepage screen grab

You can find Flightglobal.com's news and blog page (or landing page as its known in the jargon) for the 25th National Space Symposium right here

You can create you're own landing pages for any aerospace topic you want by going to this page and typing into the landing page generator called "create your own page" the aerospace topic of your choice 

credit NASA / caption: Apollo 11 anniversary but isn't this the Earth rise Apollo 8 is famous for?  

Go here to find NASA's Apollo 11 40th anniversary website and click through to this to find a document with the list of events to be associated with the anniversary but while 20 July is a big day in the calendar for some odd reason 16 July has nothing happening and yet that was the day the mission was launched. Watch the launch in the video below 

credit Lockheed Martin / caption: the heat shield has become a very tall tent pole in the Orion tent, so to speak

In the next few weeks NASA is to announce its selection for the heat shield material for the Orion crew exploration vehicle's (CEV) crew module. The space agency has told Hyperbola that assuming "all materials and work is completed" the press release could be published this month, so maybe it will actually be April but either way it is a decision that is at least 14-months late

credit NASA / caption: Neil Armstrong outside the LM Eagle during the first Moon walk

NASA is to launch its 40th anniversary website for Apollo 11 by 16 March but this month doesn't seem to be linked to any particularly significant Apollo milestone as far as I can see

You can find the 30th anniversary website here but I am guessing the 40th anniversary site will have better whizzy graphics and more interactive content like this Apollo 9 feature has been given 

Find the above image of Neil Armstrong on the Moon and other images at nasaimages.org