Category: Historical

The final day of the space mission, including splashdown, which takes place in the early hours of tomorrow (11th April 2026). But first this interesting video from Speedify which attempted to explain the differences between 2026’s Artemis 2 mission and that of the Apollo missions. He is quite right about these things. The Apollo broadcasts…

This is an intermediary post, as I’m keeping the number of posts towards splashdown to a minimum. To start with after the lunar flyby the question on earth for everyone interested is when do we get to see the high quality images and videos? Have been thinking this since last night – and despite a…

Its the big day! The one where they go round Luna and see the dark side of the moon (DSOTM) – no doubt Pink Floyd’s iconic album needs to enter the dialogue somehow! Some might wonder why would London Rail be following the Artemis 2 program? Its because I faithfully followed the Apollo program and…

Even though this is currently day four of the Artemis mission, it was decided to start with Day 5 for the most recent reports instead of continuing with Day 4. In a way it was a means of keeping my sanity as sleep hasn’t been good, which is why a number of times I’ve woken…

Artemis is over half way to the moon. This post continues from the first published yesterday (3/4/26). Yesterday it was mentioned re the various flares etc seen during the flight. Here’s a couple of screenshots of those. One of sixteen screencaps taken of those flares. And another… One matter of note is the Artemis crew…

Ongoing updates on the first ever moon shot the world has seen in more than fifty years that has conveyed humans. The Artemis two project’s Orion spacecraft is on its way to the Moon. Currently at the time of writing the craft is 72,000 miles from Earth. This post is intended as a brief summary…

Its more than 50 years – 57 to be exact – since Apollo 11 landed on the Moon – July 21st 1969. In fact it wasn’t the spacecraft itself but rather its lunar module, with Neil Armstrong and Ed Aldrin that landed whilst Michael Collins stayed up in orbit aboard the command module itself. In…