moon landing
Can We Reach The Moon By The Year 2000?
Has everyone heard about the POPSCI archives by now ? Popular Science put ALL their publications from the past 137 years online, free of charge! I've read hundreds of wonderful articles, all the way back to 1872, and blogged about I thought were historically interesting...
So far, my favorite was printed in May of 1958, just as the space race was really heating up! Dr. Israel Monroe Levitt (1908-2004) wrote a fascinating account of how America might plan and execute the monumental lunar landing... by the year 2000. Wow, we beat that by 31 years! It's a real eye-opener to see what the bright minds of the mid-20th century thought of potential space exploration.
Hawaiian Moon Rocks Found, Most Others Still Missing
A set of rare moon rocks turned up in a cabinet in the Hawaii governor’s office last Friday, a small but significant victory for the lunar enthusiasts who’d like to know where Apollo’s legacy resides on this planet.
The rocks weren’t technically lost, the Honolulu Advertiser reported, in that they remained within the possession of the state government, but the exact location of the samples was not known until an annual inventory of gifts given to the state was conducted.
One Giant Leap Into Past Glory
Of all the Apollo 11 decadal anniversaries, this one is particularly
made poignant with the passing of the "journalist’s journalist" Walter Cronkite.
Alongside astronaut Wally Schirra, he shared our collective excitement
about the historic Apollo 11 moon landing on July 20, 1969.
Apollo at Forty
Forty years ago humans embarked on a dangerous journey from which their safety and return could not be guaranteed. Not since humans first journeyed far from the savannahs of Africa or set 
sail across vast oceans has any trip been so defining of the spirit that lives in all of us.
Your Apollo Anniversary Experience
You can’t say NASA hasn’t capitalized on the Apollo 11 anniversary. The agency has literally gone hog wild with all the ways you can celebrate the moon landing, which happened 40 years ago on July 20. Here are some of the best multimedia experiences NASA has to offer.
Audio time capsule:
NASA Vision Keeps Going
When President Barack Obama indicated in his speech Tuesday night that everyone would have to make sacrifices and everyone’s favorite programs would have to take hits it 
sent shudders through the space community.
On This Christmas Eve
Forty years ago tonight America was bringing to a close a year that saw much turmoil and unrest.
No Giant Leaps for ESA (European Space Agency)
The thought of manned space exploration conjures many emotions from the initial “can we do this?” in the late fifties and early sixties to the space 
race to the landing on the moon and how we’ve progressed since that July day in 1969.
War and Space
Civilization has known war and conflict all throughout its history. The Second World War gave birth to the space age, but long 
before that battle humans gazed at the sky and dreamed of what existed beyond the reaches of Earth while on the ground the use of rockets was strictly as a military weapon.
A Dangerous “Trek” to Tranquility Base
Astrobotics has announced an exciting and ambitious effort to land a robotic rover on the lunar surface at the site of the Apollo 11 landing as part of the Google LunarX Prize competition.
