Mykaell Riley has curated the perfect sound track in response to the 1969 Apollo 11 Moon Landings, So dust of the gingham blanket, press play and be transported back 50 years. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2MyucHm17pH1jTZEZXckvz Mykaell Riley Mykaell S. Riley began his career in the late seventies as a performer with pioneering Reggae outfit 'Steel Pulse' who went [...]
10 Lunar Poems to inspire
Dr Nicola Thomas is a teacher and researcher specialising in German and British poetry of the post-war period. She is currently Departmental Lecturer in German at The Queen’s College, University of Oxford. The Moon has always held a special appeal for lyric poets. Joachim Kalka notes that its varied trajectory through the sky, its shifting [...]
5 Moon Landing Memories
Thank you to everyone who has shared with us their Moon Landing Memories, we have been inundated with text and images of how the Moon landings shaped or inspired you. There is still time to submit your memory to this crowd sourced campaign. Here are a few of our favorite submissions so far: Steve Hicks [...]
11 big screen hits to transport you to the Moon
Dr Iain Robert Smith is Lecturer in Film Studies at King’s College London. To celebrate the upcoming anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing, Dr. Iain Robert Smith (King’s College London) has compiled a list of 11 Moon-landing films ranging from relatively realistic depictions of the US and Soviet space programmes through to more fantastical [...]
11 literary narratives inspired by Moon voyages
Dr Caroline Edwards Senior Lecturer in Modern & Contemporary Literature at Birkbeck, University of London. Moon voyage narratives have inspired writers for almost two thousand years, since the ancient Greek satirist Lucian of Samosata projected sea voyagers caught in an Atlantic whirlwind onto the moon’s surface in his True History. Lunar travel became a popular [...]
Remembering the excitement of waiting for Neil Armstrong to emerge from the Lunar Module
Professor Barry C Smith was 11 at the time of the first Moon Landing, he remembers the excitement of the occasion
Destined to be a space cadet
Chris Lee, Chief Scientist and Head of Science Programmes at the UK Space Agency, remembers staying up late for the Moon Landing
Libby Jackson remembers how her family marked the Moon Landings
Libby Jackson is the Human Exploration Programme Manager at the UK Space Agency. Libby discusses the events of 20th July 1969 through the accounts of her father who was a teenager at the time of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing. She recounts how his family were woken up at 03:30am to sit around the black [...]
Ian remembers the explorers and adventurers of his generation
Ian Howard was 5 when the Moon landings happened, he recalls how space infiltrated all aspects of his childhood.