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Moonstruck
Today’s Telegraph supplies some information about Apollo 11: Michael Collins, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin talk to President Richard Nixon from their mobile quarantine unit onboard the USS Hornet in...
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Now And Then
President Obama welcomed the Apollo XI crew to the White House today to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the 1969 moon landing On 5 November 1969, RN welcomed the Apollo XI crew on the South Lawn at...
View ArticleMcGovern-Cronkite ‘72?
A few minutes ago the fortieth anniversary arrived of the moment when Neil Armstrong stepped onto the lunar surface. For most American TV viewers that awe-inspiring night, the voice commenting on the...
View ArticleNixon, Cronkite, Apollo 11, And “The Sea Of Tranquility”
In July 1989, on the 20th anniversary of the moon landing, former Nixon speechwriter and then New York Times columnist William Safire wrote that he helped work in the lines for RN’s phone call to Neil...
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That’s One Small Step For Oops….
Say What?: “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” As Neil Armstrong later observed: “I didn’t intentionally make an inane statement . . . certainly the ‘a’ was intended, because...
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7.23.69
Battered but unbowed: The post-splashdown Apollo XI command module Columbia. With one day to go before the anniversary of Apollo XI’s splashdown, TNN remembers another 20th Century triumph of...
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7.24.69
Watchful waiting: RN aboard the USS Hornet in mid-Pacific waiting for the Apollo XI command module splashdown. 24 July 1969: Day 9 of Apollo XI’s Mission to the Moon 6:47 a.m.- Crew awakens and...
View ArticleTwo Anniversaries
Last month the fortieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing, and of Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin’s historic moonwalk, was the subject of many hours of TV coverage and commentary, and of...
View ArticleNixon, The British, And The Moon
Over at the UK version of Wired Magazine, Katie Scott ruminates about the British space program and poses the question: why didn’t Britain win the race to the Moon? According to Scott, the British...
View ArticleThe Missing Moon Rocks
The fortieth anniversary last year of the first moon landing by Apollo 11 stirred interest in the mineral artifacts brought back by that mission and the five others that reached the lunar surface....
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