July 20th, 1969, 8:30pm: As an 8-year old, I was packed off to bed. My folks knew I was very interested in the upcoming Moon Landing, so… The estate I grew up on was a young one, so was full of kids in the mid to late 60s. We’d spend hours out playing on the…
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Apollo 11 Reminiscences
Monday, July 20th, 2009 at
7:03 pm
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Apollo 11 Diatribe
Friday, July 17th, 2009 at
3:12 pm
40 years on from the Apollo 11 Moon Landing in 1969, we’re still no closer to returning to the Moon than we were when Apollo 17 left the Moon on 1972. We’re further from where we were in 1972, if anything. At least back then, there was still the rocketry expertise and infrastructure to support…
Apollo 40th Anniversary
Thursday, July 16th, 2009 at
11:17 pm
NASA has released newly restored video from the July 20, 1969, live television broadcast of the Apollo 11 moonwalk. The release commemorates the 40th anniversary of the first mission to land astronauts on the Moon. Other 40th Anniversary Resources The initial video release, part of a larger Apollo 11 moonwalk restoration project, features 15 key…
Apollo 11 40th Anniversary Documentaries
Sunday, July 12th, 2009 at
2:53 pm
This is a list of Apollo 11 related programmes to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the moon landing, that are airing on the Sky and Freesat platforms in Europe over the coming days. If you live in the US and would like me to update this list with programmes available to a US audience, please…
NASA Announces Request for Information on Werner Von Braun Collection
Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 at
3:30 pm
On the eve of the 40th anniversary of the historic first moon landing, NASA is seeking ideas from the public, academia, and industry about how to analyze and catalog notes from spaceflight pioneer Wernher von Braun into an electronic, searchable database or other system. Von Braun was the first director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight…
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