LUNAR LINKS! MAN LANDS ON THE MOON **40 YEARS AGO TODAY**
That giant leap made by NASA and the brave astronauts of Apollo 11 – Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins – happened 40 years ago today.
Here’s a link to a priceless mission transcript on the Kennedy Space Center site: http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/history/apollo/apollo-11/apollo-11.html
Here’s a special New York Times feature on “Readers’ Moon Memories”: http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/07/15/science/space/20090715moon-readers_index.html
And below are a couple of cover stories on the moon landing, one real, one fake. One could argue the fake one more accurately depicts the dizzying achievement of Apollo 11.
And, of course, the moon landing is placed within the context of the times in my book 1969: The Year Everything Changed, now available at a Barnes and Noble near you…
- Rob
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