Category Archives: Apollo

Friday / 19 July 2013

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Commemorating Space Exploration Day

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Frontiers Of Flight Museum In Dallas TX Hosting 5th Annual Moon Day Event On Sat 20 July, Celebrating 1st Lunar Landing While Exciting Youth About Current Space Activities & Inspiring Them To Shape Future Of Space Exploration; Utah NSS Chapter Organizing Petition To Establish 20 July – Space Exploration Day – As Legal Non-Paid USA Holiday, Requesting Presidential Executive Order With Accompanying Vision For Human Return To Moon / Future In Space

Image Credit: NASA, Frontiers of Flight Museum, NSS

Thursday / 11 July 2013

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US Lawmakers Propose National Park On Moon

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Apollo Lunar Landing Legacy Act Proposed By US Representatives Donna Edwards (D-MD) & Eddie Johnson (D-TX) Seeks To Establish Apollo Landing Sites / Artifacts As National Park, Protect From Future Visitors; Bill Would Also Require US To Apply To UN For Apollo 11 Landing Area World Heritage Site Designation; Actual USA Human Moon Program May Be More Effective Way To Ensure Preservation Of Artifacts

Image Credit: NASA, NY Daily News

Weekend Edition / Fri-Mon 28 Jun-1 Jul 2013

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Space Month July 2013

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USA Historic Accomplishments On 20 July Make This Month Opportune Time To Advance Next Giant Leaps Into Galaxy; 1st Humans On Moon (Apollo 11 – 1969), 1st Spacecraft To Land On Another Planet (Viking 1 – 1976); To Reassert USA Leadership In Lunar / Solar System Exploration NASA Can Use Inspiration Of Space Month 2013 To Complement Bold Activities / Plans Of NewSpace Companies

 Image Credit: NASA

Wednesday / 19 June 2013

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Neil Armstrong To Be Remembered

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Memorial Service For 1st Person To Establish Humanity As Multi-World Species To Be Held At NASA Johnson Space Center In Houston TX On 20 June, 10:00 CDT; Fellow Apollo 11 Astronauts Buzz Aldrin & Michael Collins, Along With JSC Director Ellen Ochoa, Family Members & Long-Time Associates Will Pay Tribute To Neil Armstrong; Memorial Service Takes Place Exactly One Month Before 44th Anniversary Of Historic Moon Landing; Armstrong Died Aug 2012 At Age 82

Image Credit: NASA

Weekend Edition / Fri-Mon 17-20 May 2013

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Harrison Schmitt Headlines Lunar Events At Washington University In St. Louis

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Apollo 17 Moonworker Will Give Seminar On 20 May At WUSTL Entitled ‘Field Geology On Another World’; Schmitt (R) Will Then Participate In ‘Exploratory Forum’ With Students To Discuss Ideas For Future Human Moon Missions; Forum Will Allow WUSTL RASC-AL Team To Refine Presentation Of Their Proposed Investigation Of Potential Landing Sites For Outpost At Lunar South Pole; Tue-Thu Schmitt Will Participate In LROC Science Team Meeting Hosted By Brad Joliff (L)

Image Credit: NASA, WUSTL

Friday / 17 May 2013

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Apollo / Gemini Astronaut Lovell Joins GSC

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Moon Astronaut Jim Lovell (R) Joins As Member Of Golden Spike Company Board Of Advisors; Having Flown To Moon Twice, Trained For Lunar Landing & Being 1 Of Only 24 People To Have Flown To Moon, ‘Unique Perspective & Advice Will Be Invaluable’ Says Gerry Griffin (L) Former Apollo Director & Chairman Of GSC BoD; Has Already Consulted On Designs For Crew Module, Other Issues

Image Credit: GSC, Perdue

Weekend Edition / Fri-Mon 10-13 May 2013

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Preserving Tranquility Base & Other Artifacts Of Human Drive To Explore Space

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New Efforts To Protect Off-Earth Objects, Sites Of Significance Arise Out Of Society For American Archeology 78th Annual Meeting; Space Session Co-Chairs Beth O’Leary UNM Las Cruces / Lisa Westwood CSU, And Further Analysis At The Space Review, Suggest Evolving Legal Framework To Protect Without Claiming Sovereignty, Multilateral Transparency; Similar To Antarctica, Int’l Waters

Image Credit: NASA, NMSU

Friday / 22 March 2013

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Apollo F-1 Engines May Help Get Us Back To The Moon

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Saturn V F-1 Rocket Engines That Took Humans To The Moon Recovered From 4.8 km Beneath Atlantic Ocean By Bezos Expeditions; 5.8-m Tall By 3.8-m Wide Engineering Feat Impacted Water At 8,047 km/hr; NASA MSFC Engineers Refurbishing / Testing Components From Museums To Develop SLS – Next Generation Heavy Launch Vehicle; F-1 Is Most Powerful Single-Chamber Liquid-Fueled Rocket Engine Ever Developed, Provides 6.6M Newtons Of Thrust, 32M Horsepower

Image Credit: Bezos Expeditions

Tuesday / 5 March 2013

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LOIRP Crowdfunding For Technoarchaeology

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Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project Crowd Funding To Continue Work Restoring Imagery From 1960s Moon Missions; Team Led By Dennis Wingo Has Created Over 600 Images & Processed Over 20 Terabytes Of Data, Still Have Over 700 Remaining Tape Drives / 850 Images To Process; Donations Received Will Be Used To Purchase 5 New Tape Drive Heads, Pay Engineering Team

Image Credit: LOIRP, Rockethub.com

Wednesday / 20 February 2013

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Wet Moon Rocks Challenge Moon Origin Theory

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Analysis Of Apollo Moon Rocks –  Led By Hejiu Hui Of University Of Notre Dame – Throws Moon Origin Theory Into Question; Modern Instruments Able To Detect 6 ppm Of Water In Interior Of Genesis (R) & Other Apollo Rocks Once Thought To Be Dry; Researchers Estimate Early Moon Magma Contained Up To 320 ppm; Impact Theory Of Moon Formation (L) Does Not Account For These Damp Findings 

Image Credit: nasa.gov, nd.edu