The last episode is a live forum recorded at Rice University, Texas (the site of President Kennedy's historic speech) : https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csz534 This includes Apollo 7 astronaut Walt Cunningham and Mission Controllers Gerry Griffin and John Aaron giving their recollections of the da...

The night before our launches, I'd met up with Gary Hawkins, an old friend on holiday from San Diego (you may recall that a couple of years ago he wrote an article for our newsletter about his experiences with an 8" Dobsonian in California). I'd told him about our planned rocket-night, and then sent...

In Episode 10 we hear an annotated version (with Kevin Fong's detailed explanations) of the voice recordings of the descent and landing: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07grjp4 And this includes the root-cause of the 1200-series Program Alarms : the astronauts having turned on their Rendezvous Rad...

I'll be including a number of Darren's pictures in the next edition of The Bolton Astronomer, published in September.
Meanwhile, Carl has assembled Cheryl's video-clips into this "highlights reel":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JX8jlG1OA4

Episode 9 covers the landing itself: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3csz4ds I was interested to hear about the Landing-Point Designator which Armstrong used to visualise his landing site whilst in flight. It was merely a graduated scale etched onto his window, past which he could sight the terra...

Episode 8 takes us through the "Powered Descent" phase of the flight: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p07fgvq2 As well as the audio-stream from NASA's archives we also hear interviews with Flight Director Gene Kranz and his team from Mission Control , particularly the Capsule Communicator Charlie ...

And finally a homage to the Titan rockets which launched the ten manned Gemini missions in 1965-66: Gemini8.jpg NASA used these missions to practice the orbital rendezvous and docking procedures which would be used in Apollo . And they gave the astronauts vital space experience before going to the M...

And here's one which recalls a time when Britain had its own rocket programme - the BLACK ARROW which launched our Prospero satellite in 1971:

Episode 7 is all about the "third man": Apollo 11 's Command Module Pilot Mike Collins : https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3csz4dq He says that his participation in the mission was "10% shrewd judgement and 90% luck" - and only got into NASA's astronaut selection at the second attempt. The programm...

At the recent Practical Astronomy Show 2019 , Dr. Robin Glover (a physicist and software developer who created the SharpCap program) gave a 50-minute talk about the niceties of long-exposure digital imaging, particularly with modern CMOS microlens sensors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RH93UvP358...