Moon

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Joseph Vick, the manager of museum education at the US Space & Rocket Center, discusses the Mobile Quarantine Facility used by Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad, Al Bean and Dick Gordon after their mission to the Moon with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian in Huntsville, Ala. The three spent two weeks in the modified Airstream trailer to ensure that potential diseases from the lunar surface didn’t contaminate planet Earth. Apollo missions 11, 12 and 14 astronauts that made it to the Moon used the mobile facilities immediately after landing — entering the trailer after splashdown aboard USS Hornet through return to the United States — until scientists concluded that the precaution was unnecessary.

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Todd Douglas Miller, award-winning filmmaker and director of the new documentary “Apollo 11,” and Rick Armstrong, the son of Mission Commander Neil Armstrong, discuss the importance of commemorating the 50th anniversary of the first time men set foot on the Moon on July 20, 1969, and telling the story of history’s most incredible voyage. The interview was conducted at the National Air and Space Museum where the move was screened before being released in IMAX and conventional theaters nationwide.

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Tony Castilleja, systems engineer, and Josh Barrett, communications specialist, both with Boeing Space & Missile Systems, discuss the company’s new Space Launch System heavy-lift rocket, CST-100 Starliner spacecraft and new spacesuit with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview was conducted in Washington, DC, at “To the Future” space experience by Boeing and Axios that will run through the mid-February.