Apollo – Brewminate

Mapping the Moon for Apollo

Posted on January 27, 2020 by MAMcIntosh

The maps of the Moon that were created at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory have long since been surpassed. Introduction At an International Astronomical Union meeting in 1955, noted astronomer Gerard Kuiper asked for suggestions and collaborators on a project to make a map of the Moon. At the time, the best lunar atlases had hand-drawn images,[…]

Cicero’s 2,000-Year-Old Dream in Ancient Rome Realized by Apollo 8 in 1968

Posted on August 8, 2019 by MAMcIntosh

Apollo 8 was the moment that humanity realized a dream conceived in our cultural imagination over two millennia ago. Introduction Half a century of Christmases ago, the NASA space mission Apollo 8 became the first manned craft to leave low Earth orbit, atop the unprecedentedly powerful Saturn V rocket, and head out to circumnavigate another[…]