Apollo 11 News

Dec 2nd 2009 at 8:01PM This past summer Taschen released Moonfire the comprehensive photographic essay with text originally written by Norman Mailer to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the historic Apollo 11 moon landing.

With a script taken from real transcripts from the missing as well as contemporary documents, books and interviews with those involved, Moonshot plays like more of a real-life enactment with top notch acting, direction and dialogue.

"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." Oops. I was reading the brief synopsis of Moonshot on Amazon, trying to determine if this would be something I wanted to review.

This blog focuses on the nuts-and-bolts of space technology. We're interested in the hardware that's actually going into orbit and beyond.

Moon river Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin 's partially right. NASA's confirmation Friday that there's water on the moon doesn't mean the U.S. should put all its effort into exploiting it.

Let me show you something. And when I say "something", I mean something . See the red arrow, and where it's pointing? That arrow is pointing to a place that changed humanity forever.

For just over 21 hours in July of 1969, two men became the first humans to take a stroll around the Moon.

The L.A. County Board of Supervisors is heading for the final frontier: Space. At the behest of Supervisor Mike Antonovich, the board is appointing Gemini 12 and Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin as its very own "Honorary Consul General to the Moon from Los Angeles County." Aldrin was the second man to step on the moon in July 1969.

Forty years after humans first walked on the moon, NASA is offering the next generation of explorers a chance to learn how the challenges of the Apollo 11 mission were met.

Buzz Aldrin, an astronaut on the first mission to land on the Moon, will be recognized Tuesday by the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors to honor the contribution of veterans to the country's space program.

A piece of Apollo 11 is expected to fetch a high price at auction, the scrap of Kapton Foil would have helped protect the command module as it re-entered Earth's atmosphere on the return journey from the moon.

A piece of the first spacecraft to land on the moon is expected to fetch up to A 1,200 at auction in Wiltshire.

Actors from "Star Trek: The Next Generation" join star astronauts this weekend at Kennedy Space Center for the Astronaut Autograph and Memorabilia Show.

'The Magician' by Michael Scott appears to have cast a spell on Neil Tyler, 11, who was among those attending the Texas Book Festival on Saturday.

The last fifty years have made enormous advances in technology that have changed the style we live as a human race.

The state versus the final frontier Source: Center for a Stateless Society Author: Thomas L. Knapp Posted on 10.25.09 by Thomas L. Knapp "On July 21st, 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong became the first human beings to land on the moon.

Editor's note: Buzz Aldrin, whose new book is "Magnificent Desolation," was one of the two American astronauts who were the first people to set foot on the moon.

As if the governor's office doesn't have enough headaches with teacher furlough lawsuits, budget shortfalls and plummeting tourist revenues, there's this: A former NASA senior special agent says the state cannot account for five priceless moon rocks that were given as gifts to the people of Hawaii in celebration of mankind's age-old quest to ...

About a dozen veteran astronauts stood behind the commercial space industry on Friday, noting in a letter published in the Wall Street Journal that American rocket companies are "fully capable of safely handling the critical task of low-Earth-orbit human transportation." The endorsement , which included the signature of Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz ...

This is a absolutely ridiculous idea, one the Houston Chronicle shouldn't be advancing: The concept of a one-way mission to Mars has circulated among space buffs for years, with a Houston-based former NASA engineer, James C. McLane III, among its chief champions.