Collaborate Disseminate
July 20th marked the anniversary of the first human setting foot on the moon. If you were alive back then, you probably remember being glued to the TV watching the high-tech images of Armstrong taking that first step. But if you go back and watch the video today, it doesn’t …read more
The interactionC.db database certainly does not get as much as attention as its CoreDuet partner in crime, knowledgeC.db. However, I think it has quite a bit of investigative potential. I’ve written about it before in a prior blog, however I’d like to … Continue reading Socially Distant but Still Interacting! New and Improved Updates to macOS/iOS CoreDuet interactionC.db APOLLO Modules
While helping some investigators out I realized that my some of my APOLLO knowledgeC modules needed a bit of updating. Naturally I thought it would be quick, but it turned into quite an extensive update. I’ve included lots of brand-new modules as well … Continue reading Extensive knowledgeC APOLLO Updates!
It’s been a while since I last jailbroke an Apple TV and had a forensic look at it. Using the checkra1n jailbreak, I decided to give it a try. The jailbreak itself was easy and went very smooth. This was using an 4th Gen Apple TV running tvOS 13.4… Continue reading APOLLO and tvOS – It Just Works! (…and judges me for binging TV)
Because of the architecture used for the Apollo missions, extended stays on the surface of the Moon weren’t possible. The spartan Lunar Module simply wasn’t large enough to support excursions of more than a few days in length, and even that would be pushing the edge of the envelope. But …read more
Continue reading Masten Moon Rocket Has Landing Pad, Will Travel
The Apollo program proved that humans could land on the Moon and do useful work, but due to logistical and technical limitations, individual missions were kept short. For the $28 billion ($283 billion adjusted) spent on the entire program, astronauts only clocked in around 16 days total on the lunar …read more
Continue reading NASA’s Plan for Sustained Lunar Exploration
Gosh, what a shame: it turns out that perhaps 2 billion phones won’t be capable of COVID-19 contact-tracing using the API that Google and Apple are jointly developing. The problem is that the scheme the two tech giants have concocted, which Elliot Williams expertly dissected recently, is based on Bluetooth …read more
Join us on Wednesday, April 22 at noon Pacific for the Hacking Apollo Hack Chat with “CuriousMarc” Verdiell, Ken Shirriff, Mike Stewart, and Carl Claunch!
When President Kennedy laid down the gauntlet to a generation of scientists and engineers to land a man on the Moon before the close of …read more
On April 11, 1970, at 19:13 GMT, Apollo 13 lifted off from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Atop the giant Saturn V booster sat Command Module 109 and Service Module 109, which together formed CSM-109 (otherwise known as Odyss… Continue reading “Houston, we’ve had a problem”: The story of NASA’s most successful failure
Apollo astronaut Colonel Alfred Merrill “Al” Worden has died at the age of 88. In a Twitter post, his family revealed that the former Command Module Pilot for the 1971 Apollo 15 lunar landing mission passed away in his sleep on March 18, 2020, at his h… Continue reading Apollo 15 astronaut Al Worden dies age 88