Tag: 50th Anniversary

Apollo 11 Had a Hidden Hero: Software

“Monday’s Wall Street Journal includes a special Apollo 11 feature,” writes Slashdot reader Outatime in honor of the 50th anniversary since Apollo 11’s Saturn V launched from the Kennedy Space Center. “[O]f particular interest to many Slashdot nerds is the piece on the pioneering computer hardware and software that took three astronauts, and landed two, on the moon.” Here’s an excerpt…

See how visualizations of the moon have changed over time

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, here’s a collection of images that show how the moon has been visualized over the ages. Source: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/see-how-visualizations-moon-have-changed-over-time4…

Centuries of Moon depictions on display in New York

Some 400 years of depictions of the Moon, particularly via photography, are going on display at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art ahead of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing. Source: https://phys.org/news/2019-07-centuries-moon-depictions-york.html…

Former NASA Flight Director Gene Kranz Restores Mission Control In Houston

Gene Kranz may be the most famous flight director in NASA’s history. He directed the actual landing portion of the first mission to put men on the moon, Apollo 11, and led Mission Control in saving the crew of Apollo 13 after an oxygen tank exploded on the way to the lunar surface. Now Kranz, 85, has completed another undertaking: the…

The extreme technology transforming space engineering

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the first Apollo moon landing. This was possible thanks to an extraordinary acceleration of space technology. Within a remarkably short period of time leading up to the event, engineers had mastered rocket propulsion, on-board computing and space operations, partially thanks to an essentially unlimited budget. Source: https://phys.org/news/2019-06-extreme-technology-space.html…

Poll: Americans Want NASA To Focus More On Asteroid Impacts, Less On Getting To Mars

An anonymous reader writes: Americans are less interested in NASA sending humans to the moon or Mars than they are in the U.S. space agency focusing on potential asteroid impacts and using robots for space exploration. That’s according to a poll by The Associated Press and the NORC Center for Public Affairs Research released Thursday, one month before the 50th anniversary…

AR Recreation of Apollo 11 Mission in Celebration of 50th Anniversary of Moon Landing

edX and the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library have partnered to bring an exciting experience to the edX community. In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the first Moon landing, the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library is launching the JFK Moonshot, a first-of-its-kind augmented reality app experience. From July 16th to the 20th, the app will provide users anywhere in the…