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• Magnificent Desolation by Buzz Aldrin

  
  Auxiliary Memory — Authority: 453
  I’ve read other memoirs by the Apollo astronauts who went to the Moon, most of whom wrote about their tremendous efforts to become space jocks and their stories always peaked with their lunar adventures.  Buzz Aldrin second autobiographical book starts with the Apollo 11 landing and quickly wraps that adventure ...
  6 days ago

• Win one of two DVD or Blu-ray editions of Moonshot

  
  Film Fetish — Authority: 146
  Scene from Moonshot Celebrate the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11’s mission with the amazing hi-def original docudrama Moonshot, which was released this week by The History Channel. To celebrate the release, FilmFetish is giving away two DVD and two Blu-ray editions of this breathtaking adventure. PLEASE NOTE: To ...
  6 days ago

• Why Do We Not Accept The Truth?

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 552
  Conspiracy theories there are literally hundreds if not thousands of them, have you got a favourite? bet you have is it about “Titanic” or the “Kennedy assassination” or did we really land on the “Moon” or was the “Vietnam war” started over a card game?   I promise you they are endless conspiracy ...
  1 week ago

• Echoblowcation: Nota Bene #2009-41

  
  Scholars and Rogues — Authority: 604
  A few things for you NB readers: 1. NB is now numbered by year-issue instead of marked by date; 2. NB will continue to be issued weekly, but not necessarily on Monday night/Tuesday morning; 3. I liked last week’s format ( quoted line from source ) so much I’m repeating it. Enjoy! … “[O]ur recovery is likely to ...
  1 week ago

• Nobody likes to talk about

  
  Pundit Kitchen: Lol News and Lol Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, John McCain, Joe Biden and more — Authority: 606
  Nobody likes to talk about the fourth Apollo 11 astronaut (Moon Landing) Picture by: dunno source Caption by: JMonschke via Advanced Lol Builder » Recaption This! » View All Captions
  1 week ago

• OVERACHIEVEMENT

  
  Pundit Kitchen: Lol News and Lol Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, John McCain, Joe Biden and more — Authority: 606
  OVERACHIEVEMENT Everything else you do will be compared to it. (Apollo 11 liftoff) You have to admire them Picture by: dunno source. Caption by: Muze via Poster Builder » Recaption This » See All Captions
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• APEC leaders dilute carbon targets

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is jointly hosting a climate change breakfast on the sidelines of APEC in Singapore, though the Pacific rim leaders have watered down climate change targets in their final statement. Climate change has been the big new issue on the usually trade-centred agenda of the Asia Pacific Economic ...
  1 week ago

• Take a Video Freefall: Apollo 11 Landing Site

  
  Space Coalition Blog — Authority: 145
  Thanks to NASAs Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and the talented folks at Arizona State University in Tempe you can take a video freefall of Apollo 11s landing site, Tranquility Base. Very small details of Tranquility Base can be discerned. The footpads of the Lunar Module are clearly discernible, components of ...
  1 week ago

• High Noon over Apollo 11 on YouTube

  
  Lunar Pioneer — Authority: 484
  Tranquility Base at high noon, is virtually zoomed-in upon, this time on YouTube , an animated survey of the latest of three images of Apollo 11 swept up by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) October 1. Detail about the full image were posted November 9 [LROC M109080308RE - NASA/GSFU/ASU]. Lunar ...
  1 week ago

• Astrorobotic Rover Aims To Visit Apollo 11 Site After 40 Years

  
  Future Transportation — Authority: 140
  Forty years after Apollo 11 touched down on the moon, plans are afoot to revisit the site to see how the remains have stood up to four decades of radiation and micrometeorite bombardment. One vehicle that may well be used for this expedition is the third prototype lunar robot from Lunar X Prize entrant Astrobotic. The ...
  2 weeks ago

• Grover’s Accidental Gay Marriage PSA

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 626
  With all the Sesame Street hubbub as of late it seems people (like me) have been watching a TON of old Sesame Street videos.  And with all that watching someone over at boingboing came across a great clip of Grover discussing what marriage is.  What makes the clip stand out is that nowhere in the clip do Grover ...
  2 weeks ago

• Sesame Street Gets a Real Street

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 626
  In celebration of Sesame Street’s 40th Birthday the gang got their own corner in New York City! Now the corner of 64th and Broadway reads 123 Sesame Street and 11/10 is officially Sesame Street Day. This makes me happy for so many reasons but the main one is that Sesame Street’s new corner is right by my ...
  2 weeks ago

• NASA Live Digital Network Brings Apollo 11 Experts into Classrooms

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 617
  WASHINGTON – Forty years after humans first walked on the moon, NASA is offering the next generation of explorers a chance to learn how the challenges of the Apollo 11 mission were met. Through a series of interactive educational videoconferences, students will hear firsthand accounts of the people who made the ...
  2 weeks ago

• LRO Gets Additional View of Apollo 11 Landing Site

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 617
  “Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.”With those eight words, astronaut Neil Armstrong let the world know that Apollo 11 had landed safely on the moon, beginning humankind’s first exploration of another world. The landing certainly kept the mission operations crew in suspense as Armstrong ...
  2 weeks ago

• One Giant Leap seen again

  
  Bad Astronomy — Authority: 700
  Let me show you something. And when I say "something", I mean something . See the red arrow, and where it’s pointing? That arrow is pointing to a place that changed humanity forever. You can divide all of history between the time before and the time after what happened where that arrow points. You see, that ...
  2 weeks ago

• High Noon at Tranquility Base

  
  Lunar Pioneer — Authority: 484
  Sixty meters over West Crater Neil Armstrong takes manual control from the automated landing system of the Apollo 11 lunar module "Eagle" because it seemed about to set down within the craters boulder-strewn interior. The still above from the sequential still camera shows the last moments of slowed forward motion ...
  2 weeks ago

• New Fantastic Photo: High Noon at Apollo 11s Tranquility Base

  
  Space Coalition Blog — Authority: 145
  NASAs Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) high-powered camera system has flown over the Apollo 11 landing site. Thanks to a low-altitude flyover of the landing spot, new details of the Apollo 11 exploration zone can been seen, far better than earlier imagery taken by LRO. At this lower altitude flown by LRO, very ...
  2 weeks ago

• New Ion Engine Could Reach Mars In 39 Days

  
  Future Transportation — Authority: 140
  Recently, as the world celebrated the first lunar landing, Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins both called for NASA to make Mars its next goal. But the chemical propulsion system that took them to the moon would take six months, at least, to get a man to Mars and cost hundreds of billions of dollars. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Article Title Unknown

  
  Lunar Pioneer — Authority: 484
  HTML clipboard Larry Baysinger "looks over the antenna he designed to receive voice communications from the Apollo astronauts during their walk" on the Moon. [ Louisville Courier-Journal , July 1969 Jay Thomas / James Grahame- Retrothing.com / Makezine ] - " Lunar Eavesdropping in Louisville, Kentucky ...
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• Eavesdropping on Apollo 11

  
  Lunar Pioneer — Authority: 484
  Larry Baysinger "looks over the antenna he designed to receive voice communications from the Apollo astronauts during their walk" on the Moon. [ Louisville Courier-Journal , July 1969 Jay Thomas / James Grahame- Retrothing.com / Makezine ] - " Lunar Eavesdropping in Louisville, Kentucky " Lunar Pioneer, ...
  2 weeks ago

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