It’s the 45h anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing and the first time human beings walked on the moon. In case you weren’t around on July 20, 1969 and weren’t on Twitter, NASA is “live tweeting” the event today at @reliveApollo11. →
http://youtu.be/aiXGUDnbSqs The folks at AXE ( a line of grooming products for men) have kicked off a contest to give away 22 tickets for a seat on a suborbital spacecraft – and they’re recruited astronaut Buzz Aldrin to help with the promotion. (See below). Rules vary by country and market, but it appears that contestants →
At the end of each year the New York Times Sunday Magazine pays tribute to some of the notable people who left us during the year. This year’s issue includes tributes to Neil Armstrong and Sally Ride, among others. Neil Armstrong is remembered with a drawing of Armstrong’s Apollo 11 suit, by Tom Sachs, which →
Neil Armstrong, the first person to take a step on the moon, died on on Saturday at age 82. Coincidentally, on Friday I spent almost an hour talking to Cathleen Lewis, curator of International Space Programs and Spacesuits at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum, about Neil Armstrong’s spacesuit. Lewis told me that →
This summer marks the 50th anniversary of the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair — an event shaped by the Soviet Union’s launch of sputnik, President Eisenhower’s creation of NASA and President Kennedy’s promise to put a man on the moon. I’ve been working on a series of short radio pieces about the fair with public radio →