Discuss the media hype and the resultant opinions of experts and writers that followed the landing of spacecraft
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Dr Duncan Steel, space scientist, Xerra Earth Observation Institute, comments:
“Beyond a shadow of a doubt, the Apollo programme was pivotal in motivating me to work in space science.
“Although I was aware of earlier manned projects (Mercury, Gemini) earlier in the 1960s, my first definite memory of a specific mission was when Apollo 8 circuited the Moon in a flight over Christmas 1968. At that time I was 13, and living in England. This was also the first time I realised that I had an interest in space above that shown by most people: I was astonished when folk asked me about the mission, and I replied that it was far further than any previous manned spaceflight, and my questioners apparently had no understanding of this.
“I do recall the Apollo 10 mission, and finding it bizarre that they would go so close to the lunar surface, and yet not land!
“My main memory of Apollo 11 is seeing Armstrong and then Aldrin step out onto the lunar surface in grainy black-and-white live TV in the early hours at my grandmother’s house. Later I have written about which radio antenna in Australia was used for those first pictures; it was not The Dish as depicted in the movie starring Sam Neill!
“Over the past 35 years I have spent much time as a Visiting Research Scientist at NASA-Ames Research Centre in Silicon Valley, usually a month or two each year. Mostly I have worked there on comets; planning missions to Mars, Europa and Enceladus; the analysis of meteoroid and dust impacts on satellites; and the problem of orbiting space debris.
“I have worked also for the European Space Agency, based in Sweden, on the Giotto mission to Comet Halley and also the analysis of meteoroid streams derived from asteroids and comets.”
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Discuss the media hype and the resultant opinions of experts and writers that followed the landing of spacecraft.