In Episode 10 we hear an annotated version (with Kevin Fong's detailed explanations) of the voice recordings of the descent and landing: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07grjp4 And this includes the root-cause of the 1200-series Program Alarms : the astronauts having turned on their Rendezvous Rad...

I'll be including a number of Darren's pictures in the next edition of The Bolton Astronomer, published in September.
Meanwhile, Carl has assembled Cheryl's video-clips into this "highlights reel":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JX8jlG1OA4

Episode 9 covers the landing itself: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3csz4ds I was interested to hear about the Landing-Point Designator which Armstrong used to visualise his landing site whilst in flight. It was merely a graduated scale etched onto his window, past which he could sight the terra...

Episode 8 takes us through the "Powered Descent" phase of the flight: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p07fgvq2 As well as the audio-stream from NASA's archives we also hear interviews with Flight Director Gene Kranz and his team from Mission Control , particularly the Capsule Communicator Charlie ...

And finally a homage to the Titan rockets which launched the ten manned Gemini missions in 1965-66: Gemini8.jpg NASA used these missions to practice the orbital rendezvous and docking procedures which would be used in Apollo . And they gave the astronauts vital space experience before going to the M...

And here's one which recalls a time when Britain had its own rocket programme - the BLACK ARROW which launched our Prospero satellite in 1971:

Episode 7 is all about the "third man": Apollo 11 's Command Module Pilot Mike Collins : https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3csz4dq He says that his participation in the mission was "10% shrewd judgement and 90% luck" - and only got into NASA's astronaut selection at the second attempt. The programm...

At the recent Practical Astronomy Show 2019 , Dr. Robin Glover (a physicist and software developer who created the SharpCap program) gave a 50-minute talk about the niceties of long-exposure digital imaging, particularly with modern CMOS microlens sensors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RH93UvP358...

Here's one of my rockets after painting: this one was inspired by "Dr. Zarkov's rocket-ship" from the Republic Pictures "Flash Gordon" serials in the 1930s.

Episode 6 https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3csz4dp covers Apollo 8 , and includes interviews with astronauts Frank Borman, Lim Lovell & Bill Anders . This was such an audacious mission that Anders told his wife that he had a one in three chance of not making it back alive - but this was about the ...