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...
Thursday, July 23
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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