- Moonshot Astronaut Families: Update
- Lurton Scott: Moonshot Era
- 1960’s Space Tech
- “Just Our Dads”
- Awe and the Office
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Moonshot Astronaut Families: Update
After a year of sabbatical research (and continuing!), my Moonshot Astronaut Families project has taken on a sharper focus – and a longer time frame (so much data and still to gather!). Here is an updated project overview. Over the next few months, I’ll post more about the themes and the process. Moonshot Astronaut Families:…
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MoonShot Astronaut Families: Preface
“What was it like to walk on the moon?” My father* has heard that question thousands of times. I’ve heard it dozens of times, as his daughter. There is no quick, easy answer. The reality was rich and deep and complex, for each of the individuals who went to the moon. Moreover, the question overlooks…
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Lurton Scott: Moonshot Era
Celebrating my mom today. She would have been 85 years old. She died in 2016, before I had the idea for my current research project (Moonshot Astronaut Families). I spent many hours going through her papers after she died, and I discovered new, and sometimes surprising, insights into her life during the early astronaut days.…
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1960’s Space Tech
24 humans journeyed to the moon from 1968 to 1972. No humans have been to the moon since. What was it like to fly in space in the 1960s and 70s? What was onboard technology like for the original Moon Shot Astronauts? Technology onboard Apollo Watch my “show-and-tell” about the Apollo onboard technology experience in…