Risk and Luck
The Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs were deeply complex and continuous exercises in risk management. To accomplish so much, in less than a decade, took ingenuity, strong scientific discipline, a relentless test regimen, great...
Category: space
Apollo astronauts revisit training area in Iceland and explore a new lava flow
Fifty years ago this month, a group of Apollo astronauts arrived in Iceland for a week of geology training. A second field trip was made in 1967. For two weeks in July 2015, astronauts...
A Trip to the Moon and the Role of Iceland in Apollo
A talk by Moonwalker and Geologist Harrison Schmitt at Reykjavík University – July 9, 2015 at 5.00 pm. Hosted by The Exploration Museum. The exposure of Apollo Astronauts to the geology of Iceland contributed...
Apollo 8: First broadcast from the Moon
The Apollo 8 mission in December 1968 was a bright spot at the end of an otherwise bleak year in American history. After riots and the assassinations of MLK and RFK, people watched in awe...
Apollo astronaut training in Iceland
In 1965 and 1967, two groups of Apollo astronauts traveled to Iceland to study geology. Among the astronauts in the 1967 group were Neil Armstrong and Bill Anders. Bill was on the crew of...
The first woman in Space
50 Years ago today, Soviet Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova made history and became the first woman ever fly in space, when she launched aboard the Vostok-6 capsule on June 16, 1963.
Opening of Apollo Space Exhibit
Sam Watson, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of the United States of America, Reykjavik Thank you, Sigrún. And thank you Örlygur who conceived this exhibition. Good afternoon everyone. Thank you for inviting me to...
