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“The Apollo and SPA basins give us a window into the earliest history of the Moon, and the Moon gives us a window into the violent youth of Earth,” Noah Petro of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center The elevation map…

“Knowledge of the universe bestows awesome power. To understand the secrets of atoms and galaxies is to become like gods.” ~W.J. Kaufmann III,  Galaxies and Quasars   On July 20, 1968 Apollo 8 landed on the moon, barely 22 years after mankind had first placed a man- made object in orbit

  For the first time, scientists have decoded the full-body color patterns of a dinosaur, a new study in the journal Science says.The subject of the new study—the 155-million-year-old Anchiornis huxleyi—turns out to have looked something like a woodpecker the size of a chicken, with black-and-white spangled wings and a rusty red crown.

Geophysicist, Shaopeng Huang has called for an international effort to develop and deploy monitoring stations on the moon in order to detect global climate changes. Huang believes the moon to be the ideal locations to study global climate change, which is driven by an imbalance between incoming energy from the sun and the outgoing energy from Earth

The race to the moon was simply a Cold War battle; once Armstrong took that “one small step for a man,” and we’d vanquished the Russians, there was little national stomach for making the massive investment necessary to fulfill Werner Von Braun’s vision of a mission to Mars, says Tom Wolfe on the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.  Wolfe, the icon of New Journalism and author of The Right Stuff.  writing in today’s New York Times, argues that Neil Armstrong’s step onto the moon was “One Giant Leap to Nowhere:” “Well, let’s see now … That was a small step for Neil Armstrong, a giant leap for mankind and a real knee in the groin for NASA. “The American space program, the greatest, grandest, most Promethean — O.K.

The enduring legacy of the Apollo 11 landing is the ultimate reality show: the life or death future of the human species. Yesterday  marked the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11’s liftoff toward the moon – and the first-ever mission for two US astronauts to walk on the moon’s surface. Stephen Hawking, our century’s Einstein, discussed his views on the profound significance of the mission on mankind in the introduction the to a just-published book Apollo Through the Eyes of the Astronauts, which he co-wrote with his daughter, Lucy, a journalist and author

The enduring legacy of the Apollo 11 landing is the ultimate reality show: the life or death future of the human species. Yesterday  marked the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11’s liftoff toward the moon – and the first-ever mission for two US astronauts to walk on the moon’s surface. Stephen Hawking, our century’s Einstein, discussed his views on the profound significance of the mission on mankind in the introduction the to a just-published book Apollo Through the Eyes of the Astronauts, which he co-wrote with his daughter, Lucy, a journalist and author.

Dramatic and previously unheard recordings of the moment the Russians tried to gatecrash the American’s Moon landing in 1969 have today been released by The University of Manchester’s Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics. The recordings were made in the Control Room of the famous Jodrell Bank Observatory, where astronomer Sir Bernard Lovell and colleagues were listening to transmissions coming from the moon. In the newly released recordings, which were made over three days in mid-July of 1969, Sir Bernard Lovell – founder of the Jodrell Bank Observatory and the man behind the famous Lovell radio telescope – can be heard narrating events.