Apollo – Roger Floyd's Website

Crewed or Crude?

I’ve decided to not like the term “crewed” when referring to a spaceship that has human beings in it. Granted, the term is now used as a replacement for the word “manned” because spaceships nowadays have women in them too, either as crew or passengers. In the beginning of the US “Man in Space” program,…

A Couple of Notes About the Artemis Project

I just have a couple of comments to make about the Artemis project that NASA has developed to return astronauts to the surface of the moon. First, humans haven’t been to the moon since the Apollo program was shut down prematurely in 1972 after Apollo 17 returned. There were three more Apollo flights scheduled (they…

Politics and Apollo

A few days ago I watched a documentary on PBS entitled “First Man On The Moon,” about Neil Armstrong, the first human to step onto the surface of the moon (and, by extension, the first human to set foot on any heavenly body other than Earth). The main take-away message of the documentary was that Armstrong, of…