India's Mid-Day Infomedia reports that Bollywood legend Shahrukh Khan, who celebrates his 44th birthday today (2 November) is among the many Indian nationals owning property on the Moon:
Every year on his birthday, an ardent Shah Rukh Khan fan buys a piece of the moon (you heard that right!) and sends it to him.
SRK confirms, "Yes, an Australian lady buys a little land on the moon for me every year on my birthday. She has been buying it for a while now and I get these certificates from the Lunar Republic Society."
SRK adds that he has met his fan and she keeps in touch with him all year through mails, "She writes me colourful emails (in the sense one line is red, one is blue and so on). I feel blessed to have the love of so many people worldwide."
According to one online lunar real estate agency, http://www.LunarRegistry.com, the Sea of Tranquility is the most sought-after address on the moon. 1 acre (approximately 43,560 sq ft, or 4,047 sq mtrs) costs US $37.50 (Rs 1758.75) and the actor owns several acres there.
An ownership package includes a beautifully engraved parchment deed, a satellite photograph of the property and an information sheet detailing the geography of your region. An interactive Full Moon Atlas on CD-ROM is available at an additional cost.
Now while there are many websites on the internet (based in the US, UK and Russia) that allow you to buy land on the moon, it doesn't mean you can charge NASA or other space agencies for trespassing when they land on your property.
Complete story from Mid-Day Infomedia...
Monday, November 2
Thursday, October 8
Imagine This: A Peace Crater For John Lennon
In honor of his birthday and the 40th anniversary of "Give Peace A Chance" and the famed Bed-Ins For Peace, a crater on the Moon has been named for musician and peace activist John Lennon.
The news was announced simultaneously on the ImaginePeace.com and Lunar Geographic Society websites. ImaginePeace.com is the official website of Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, and serves as the vehicle for her continued anti-war efforts in the spirit of her late husband.
According to the official press release:
The crater, which is located in the Moon’s Lacus Somniorum (“Lake of Dreams”) district, has been given the honorary designation as the John Lennon Peace Crater on the occasion of the 69th anniversary of Mr. Lennon’s birth.
Forty years ago, in March 1969, Mr. Lennon and his wife, the artist Yoko Ono, staged their first “Bed-In For Peace” in Amsterdam. The event was followed in June of the same year by a second “Bed-In” in Montréal, during which Mr. Lennon composed and recorded the anthem “Give Peace A Chance.”
The John Lennon Peace Crater is part of the Daniell crater group, named for John Frederic Daniell (1790-1845), a London-born physicist, meteorologist and professor of chemistry. It is the largest of three satellite craters to Daniell, and rests in the heart of the Moon’s magnificent Lake of Dreams.
The news was announced simultaneously on the ImaginePeace.com and Lunar Geographic Society websites. ImaginePeace.com is the official website of Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, and serves as the vehicle for her continued anti-war efforts in the spirit of her late husband.
According to the official press release:
The crater, which is located in the Moon’s Lacus Somniorum (“Lake of Dreams”) district, has been given the honorary designation as the John Lennon Peace Crater on the occasion of the 69th anniversary of Mr. Lennon’s birth.
Forty years ago, in March 1969, Mr. Lennon and his wife, the artist Yoko Ono, staged their first “Bed-In For Peace” in Amsterdam. The event was followed in June of the same year by a second “Bed-In” in Montréal, during which Mr. Lennon composed and recorded the anthem “Give Peace A Chance.”
The John Lennon Peace Crater is part of the Daniell crater group, named for John Frederic Daniell (1790-1845), a London-born physicist, meteorologist and professor of chemistry. It is the largest of three satellite craters to Daniell, and rests in the heart of the Moon’s magnificent Lake of Dreams.
Saturday, September 19
Crater Near Apollo 11 Site Named For Walter Cronkite
The Lunar Foundation, in conjunction with the Lunar Republic Society, has announced that a crater near the Apollo 11 landing site on the Moon has been named in honor of fabled CBS Evening News anchor and space enthusiast Walter Cronkite.
The crater, previously designated as Sabine C, is located in the southern Sea of Tranquility. It is adjacent to craters previously named for the Apollo 11 crew members Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins.
Details and more from Media:Luna...
The crater, previously designated as Sabine C, is located in the southern Sea of Tranquility. It is adjacent to craters previously named for the Apollo 11 crew members Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins.
Details and more from Media:Luna...
Thursday, July 23
ChiTrib: Buzz Aldrin Raps With Snoop, Prefers Sinatra
Luis Arroyave blogs in the Chicago Tribune re: the second man on the Moon's ability to distinguish the front of the Moon from its backside, his tastes in music, and his apparent inability to laugh at his own jokes:
Buzz Aldrin looks at a large screen in the Adler Planetarium on Wednesday and gives a brief take on what it is we're looking at.
"That's the front of the moon," he says, almost as if he's showing his vacation pictures. "The back of the moon looks pretty different. It's not as hospitable."
Aldrin would make one hell of a Planetarium tour guide.
The entire story is here...
Buzz Aldrin looks at a large screen in the Adler Planetarium on Wednesday and gives a brief take on what it is we're looking at.
"That's the front of the moon," he says, almost as if he's showing his vacation pictures. "The back of the moon looks pretty different. It's not as hospitable."
Aldrin would make one hell of a Planetarium tour guide.
The entire story is here...
Monday, July 20
ABC News: After Apollo: Water on the Moon?
Ned Potter reports on ABCnews.com that NASA will crash a craft on the Moon early this October:
"If we find water there, it will change the course of exploration," said Rusty Hunt of NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif. "If there's water near the south pole, we'd go there. The people who settled the old West were able to live off the land, so to speak, and we'd do the same."
Hunt is a flight director for a mission called LCROSS (Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite), which was launched in June, and is scheduled to crash into the floor of a crater near the lunar south pole on the morning of Oct. 9.
This mission is being decried by some as a "bombing" of the Moon, taking place on noted space enthusiast (and UFO witness) John Lennon's birthday.
Complete article here...
"If we find water there, it will change the course of exploration," said Rusty Hunt of NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif. "If there's water near the south pole, we'd go there. The people who settled the old West were able to live off the land, so to speak, and we'd do the same."
Hunt is a flight director for a mission called LCROSS (Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite), which was launched in June, and is scheduled to crash into the floor of a crater near the lunar south pole on the morning of Oct. 9.
This mission is being decried by some as a "bombing" of the Moon, taking place on noted space enthusiast (and UFO witness) John Lennon's birthday.
Complete article here...
Sunday, July 19
Apollo Lunar Mission Was "Made In North Alabama"
The TimesDaily of Florence, Ala., details how this rural region in the South played a key role in the American space program:
When Eugene Cagle sat in his Rogersville home watching television on July 20, 1969, he was overcome with pride that the work he and his team had put in helping to develop and construct the massive Saturn V rocket had been worth the long hours.
Cagle, 83, is retired from NASA, but he was among those who worked to bring together the engineering needed to build a rocket that would carry a man to the moon. Cagle was stationed at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville.
The complete story...
When Eugene Cagle sat in his Rogersville home watching television on July 20, 1969, he was overcome with pride that the work he and his team had put in helping to develop and construct the massive Saturn V rocket had been worth the long hours.
Cagle, 83, is retired from NASA, but he was among those who worked to bring together the engineering needed to build a rocket that would carry a man to the moon. Cagle was stationed at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville.
The complete story...
Wednesday, July 15
LRS To Crown "Moondog Millionaire"
The Lunar Republic Society and its sponsors are going to make one person 5-million rupees richer ... if the 2,750 acres of moon real estate are actually worth that much some day:
If you've ever wanted to get away from it all ... to escape to a land of exquisite beauty unmatched anywhere in the Universe ... now is the time to enter The Moondog Millionaire Getaway!
Your prize package includes 2,750 acres of property in the Sea of Tranquillity, currently valued at 5,000,000 INR (US$103,125)! Sponsored by The Lunar Registry and Lunar Republic Interactive, your getaway destination on the Moon includes an exclusive section of property in the extraordinary Sea of Tranquillity.
All the details are here...
If you've ever wanted to get away from it all ... to escape to a land of exquisite beauty unmatched anywhere in the Universe ... now is the time to enter The Moondog Millionaire Getaway!
Your prize package includes 2,750 acres of property in the Sea of Tranquillity, currently valued at 5,000,000 INR (US$103,125)! Sponsored by The Lunar Registry and Lunar Republic Interactive, your getaway destination on the Moon includes an exclusive section of property in the extraordinary Sea of Tranquillity.
All the details are here...
Monday, July 13
UTD Scientists Vital To Manned Lunar Mission
From the Dallas Morning News:
Forty years ago this month, the whole world was focused on the first manned lunar landing. But a group of scientists at the just-created University of Texas at Dallas was paying particular attention.
The fledgling school, created by the Texas Legislature earlier that year, was a home to teams of space researchers. ... The men were among thousands of people tied to Apollo through an ambitious set of goals: to send people to the moon, to bring them back safely and to better understand Earth's closest neighbor.
Read the complete story...
Forty years ago this month, the whole world was focused on the first manned lunar landing. But a group of scientists at the just-created University of Texas at Dallas was paying particular attention.
The fledgling school, created by the Texas Legislature earlier that year, was a home to teams of space researchers. ... The men were among thousands of people tied to Apollo through an ambitious set of goals: to send people to the moon, to bring them back safely and to better understand Earth's closest neighbor.
Read the complete story...
Sunday, July 12
Website Brings Apollo 11 Journey To Life
From the Associated Press:
Families crowded around black-and-white television sets in 1969 to watch Neil Armstrong take man's first steps on the moon.
Now, they'll be able to watch the Apollo 11 mission recreated in real time on the Web, follow Twitter feeds of transmissions between Mission Control and the spacecraft, and even get an e-mail alert when the lunar module touches down.
Those features are part of a new Web site from the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum commemorating the moon mission and Kennedy's push to land Americans there first.
Read the full story...
Link: WeChooseTheMoon.org
Families crowded around black-and-white television sets in 1969 to watch Neil Armstrong take man's first steps on the moon.
Now, they'll be able to watch the Apollo 11 mission recreated in real time on the Web, follow Twitter feeds of transmissions between Mission Control and the spacecraft, and even get an e-mail alert when the lunar module touches down.
Those features are part of a new Web site from the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum commemorating the moon mission and Kennedy's push to land Americans there first.
Read the full story...
Link: WeChooseTheMoon.org
Lunar Plot Sales Soar On Jacko News
From Media:Luna --
Spurred on by news that Michael Jackson owned a significant plot of land on the moon, his fans have begun buying up their own properties in the lunar Lake of Dreams.
Jackson, whose death on June 25 prompted the naming of a moon crater in his honor, owned a contiguous 1,200-acre parcel in the Lake of Dreams. The property is expected to go in equal portions to his three children, Prince Michael Jackson I (b. 1997), Paris Michael Katherine Jackson (b. 1998), and Prince Michael Jackson II (b. 2002), in accordance with his will.
Sales of Lake of Dreams parcels have always been steady, but Jackson's tragic passing has led to a noticeable "land rush" in the past week from those seeking to be his celestial neighbor.
Link: The Moon's Lake of Dreams
Spurred on by news that Michael Jackson owned a significant plot of land on the moon, his fans have begun buying up their own properties in the lunar Lake of Dreams.
Jackson, whose death on June 25 prompted the naming of a moon crater in his honor, owned a contiguous 1,200-acre parcel in the Lake of Dreams. The property is expected to go in equal portions to his three children, Prince Michael Jackson I (b. 1997), Paris Michael Katherine Jackson (b. 1998), and Prince Michael Jackson II (b. 2002), in accordance with his will.
Sales of Lake of Dreams parcels have always been steady, but Jackson's tragic passing has led to a noticeable "land rush" in the past week from those seeking to be his celestial neighbor.
Link: The Moon's Lake of Dreams
Saturday, July 11
"For All Mankind..."
In Sunday's Los Angeles Times, Dennis Lim writes:
Since the birth of movies, the moon has exerted a fascination as a mythic location. In 1902, the cinema's original magician, Georges Méliès, used a projectile cannon, cardboard sets and a host of camera tricks to imagine "A Trip to the Moon." Fritz Lang's final silent film, "Woman in the Moon" (1929), also envisioned a fanciful lunar expedition and in the process apparently invented the blast-off countdown. Just this year, director Duncan Jones used the evocatively barren moonscape as the setting for his eerie little existential drama, "Moon."
Compared to these sci-fi fantasies -- and even alongside other nonfiction films about the moon and space travel -- Al Reinert's 1989 documentary "For All Mankind" has the obvious edge of immediacy. The film consists simply of footage shot by the astronauts who took part in the Apollo program, interspersed with occasional scenes at NASA's mission control center in Houston.
Read more...
Since the birth of movies, the moon has exerted a fascination as a mythic location. In 1902, the cinema's original magician, Georges Méliès, used a projectile cannon, cardboard sets and a host of camera tricks to imagine "A Trip to the Moon." Fritz Lang's final silent film, "Woman in the Moon" (1929), also envisioned a fanciful lunar expedition and in the process apparently invented the blast-off countdown. Just this year, director Duncan Jones used the evocatively barren moonscape as the setting for his eerie little existential drama, "Moon."
Compared to these sci-fi fantasies -- and even alongside other nonfiction films about the moon and space travel -- Al Reinert's 1989 documentary "For All Mankind" has the obvious edge of immediacy. The film consists simply of footage shot by the astronauts who took part in the Apollo program, interspersed with occasional scenes at NASA's mission control center in Houston.
Read more...
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