Now, 50 years after the first lunar landing, we reflect on this incredible endeavor and tell the story of what was achieved and how the moon landing would lay the groundwork for other scientific developments.
Take a journey from deep space, through the near orbit of earth, past the ground we walk upon and down underwater to hear from our IEEE members and Impact Creators as they celebrate all that we’ve accomplished as a scientific community.
If commercial space travel and inhabiting extraterrestrial environments are in our future, AI will be a critical component to ensure our success, says IEEE Senior Member Ella Atkins.
We’re using deep learning here on earth, but what if we could use it to understand the surface of Mars or any extraterrestrial environment? Hear IEEE Senior Member Ella Atkins discuss the future of space exploration and data collection.
What was it like to send humans to the moon before the proliferation of computers? IEEE Life Fellow and Apollo engineer George Schmidt describes innovation with just a pencil, slide rule and graph paper.
IEEE Senior Member Ella Atkins describes what it would be like to pair humans and robots on the International Space Station to improve efficiency, safety and data collection.
IEEE Senior Member Ella Atkins shares the evolution of computers and their processing capabilities over the last 50 years. Hear her discuss radiation-hardened processing and the future of edge computing.
Chemical rockets with multiple stages were the original way humans traveled from the surface of the earth into orbit and onto the lunar surface. IEEE Senior Member Ella Atkins describes how much has changed, and how much has remained the same.
Did you know that the lander and the moon buggy were both considered early robots? IEEE Senior Member Ella Atkins discusses the transformation of robotic systems and their impact on exploring the moon and space.
Robots need to be resilient in space and require the ability to make high-level decisions. Listen to IEEE Fellow Panagiotis Tsiotras describe the importance of autonomous systems to reduce risk in space travel.
Testing is essential to ensuring a system is calibrated before sending it into space. IEEE Fellow Panagiotis Tsiotras describes the importance of realistic testing of algorithms for spacecraft safety.
Early landing gear was a parachute and limited communication with earth. Now, we’ve moved on to reusable boosters. Listen to IEEE Life Fellow George Schmidt describe the major developments in space launch and landing capabilities over the last 50 years.
What sparked IEEE Life Fellow George Schmidt’s interest in becoming an engineer? The Sputnik launch, of course. He saw it on his newspaper route and knew he had to become an aeronautical engineer.
Monitoring the earth at a global scale takes the right balance of technology and data. IEEE Senior Member Feng Xu discusses the ways he uses information to protect our natural resources.
Failure is essential to learning, says IEEE Life Fellow and Apollo engineer George Schmidt. Hear him share his advice for engineering students and future engineers.
Fifty years have passed and technology has evolved in so many ways. IEEE Fellow Panagiotis Tsiotras believes there are three major technological advancements that resulted from the lunar landing in 1969.
Space exploration is inspiring – there’s beauty in the cosmos, says IEEE Fellow Panagiotis Tsiotras. Hear him share his thoughts on the future of careers in STEM.
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