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Chris Kraft, who conceived NASA’s Mission Control, passed away on July 22, 2019 at the age of 95. The space agency’s first flight director, he oversaw manned space missions from Mercury to the early Space Shuttle launches and developed many o… Continue reading Chris Kraft, the man who created NASA Mission Control, dies at age 95
When the Apollo 11 astronauts set foot on the Moon, one of their main tasks was to break out a special tool kit that they used for collecting samples of rock and soil for return to Earth. Now the French company Comex is working under an ESA c… Continue reading ESA updates lunar tool kit for future Moon explorers
If you’re reading Hackaday, we’re willing to bet that you either own the LEGO Saturn V and Lunar Module models, or at the very least know somebody who does. Even if you thought you’d finally outgrown playing with little plastic bricks (a critical mistake, but one we’ll ignore for now), …read more
Continue reading Custom Bases Make LEGO Spacecraft Even Cooler
Fifty years ago, two men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the surface of the Moon. That’s a very simple sentence to write, but getting to grips with what is almost certainly one of the top five events in the whole of human history – … Continue reading Apollo 11: Fifty years since that One Small Step
There are few moments in history that have ever been recorded in more detail or analyzed as thoroughly as the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon. Getting three men to our nearest celestial neighbor and back in one piece took a lot of careful planning, and recording every moment of …read more
A door’s hinges are arguably its most important pieces. After all, a door without hinges is just, well, a wall. Or a bulkhead, if we’re talking about a hingeless hatch on a spacecraft.
And so the assignment for creating hinges for Progress Egress, the celebration of the 50th anniversary of …read more
Only 12 people have ever set foot on the Moon, so for the rest of us photos and videos will have to suffice. The latest comes from NASA, who has stitched together images taken during the Apollo missions to provide a more expansive look throug… Continue reading NASA celebrates Moon landing with immersive Apollo-era panoramas
Put yourself in [This Old Tony]’s shoes: you get an email out of the blue asking you to take part in making a replica of a 50-year-old spacecraft. Would you believe it? He didn’t, at least not at first, but in the end it proved to be true enough that …read more
Continue reading Project Egress: A Bracket And A Bell Crank For The Latches
Throughout the history of America’s human spaceflight program, there’s been an alternating pattern in regards to abort systems. From Alan Shepard’s first flight in 1961 on, every Mercury capsule was equipped with a Launch Escape System (LES) tower that could pull the spacecraft away from a malfunctioning rocket. But by …read more
Continue reading New Space Abort Systems go Back to the Future
You often hear people — especially non-hacker types — complain that money spent on space travel would be better off spent here on Earth. Of course that ignores one big factor, that space programs have resulted in a host of spin off technologies, many of which you use every day. …read more