SpaceFlight Vol 61 No 07 – July 2019

Engineering the first Lunar Landing
The challenges facing NASA in the week up to the first landing centred on getting to the surface. All other phases had already been rehearsed on earlier flights.

Flight of the Eagle
Even as Apollo 11’s Lunar Module descended to the Moon, computer readouts and fuel quantity levels revealed a vulnerability discovered only minutes from touchdown.

So what went wrong?
Just how close did Armstrong and Aldrin come to crashing on the Moon – not nearly as close as believed at the time but it was a near thing.

Unsung hero
Space professional Fabrizio Bernardini FBIS reflects on the lasting contribution of Howard Tindall Jr, to the success of Apollo.

What if JFK had lived?
Dwayne Day looks at President Kennedy’s record on Space and muses over the possibility that the Apollo programme may have been cancelled had JFK not been assassinated.

REGULARS

Behind the news
Bezos’ Blue Moon – Suits you sir!

Opinion

ISS Report
11 April – 8 May 2019

Multi-media
The latest space-related books, games, videos

Satellite Digest
558 – April 2019

Society news / Diary
What’s happened/ What’s coming up