Melinda French Gates’ father worked on NASA’s Apollo missions; the women engineers she met at his company picnics shaped her thinking
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September 1, 2026
Melinda French Gates grew up in a household where science, engineering and education were closely woven into family life. Her father, Raymond Joseph French Jr., was an aerospace engineer whose career included work connected to NASA’s Apollo…
NASA’s next moon mission will be like nothing you’ve ever seen
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March 31, 2026
It has been more than 50 years since the last Apollo mission, and now there are only 48 hours left before NASA’s Artemis 2 manned return to the moon. The historic 10-day mission marked the first crewed launch of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket…
Historic Apollo 11: What were the first words spoken on the moon? Inside the historic Apollo 11 conversations |
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March 10, 2026
Imagine having a podcast and listening to what their first conversation sounded like during the 1969 Apollo 11 mission (marking a pivotal moment in space exploration). On July 20, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins completed the impossible…