Did you see the lunar eclipse last night? Astronomy fans were especially excited since it occurred during the winter solstice. The last time that happened was 1638 and will be another 83 years before it happens again. Here’s what it looked like from Brooklyn. Read more »
The moon is wetter than believed and researchers now think there could be a substantial concentration of water deep below the lunar surface. Drill, baby, drill! Drill, baby, drill! Drill, baby, drill!
Not only is Andy Warhol’s doodle-dick up in the lunar art museum (Moon MoMA?), but there’s also a shrunken Playboy page. The back-up Apollo 12 crew weaseled one into the fireproof plastic cuff checklists. It was discovered hours into their Moon stroll. That’s very thoughtful and all, but the mechanics involved in “appreciating” space porn in zero gravity were probably more trouble than it’s worth.
PBS’s History Detectives TV says there’s a tiny art museum on the moon. This rectangular, half-inch-by-three-quarter-inch ceramic chip was stowed away by the Apollo 12 crew on the great lunar schlep and it’s still up there. Read more »
Great, now we’ll never know if Neil Armstrong walked on the Moon. Speaking at the Kennedy Space Center today, President Obama explained why he’s more down with landing astronauts on an asteroid than the lunar surface: “I just have to say pretty bluntly – we’ve been there before. There’s a lot more space to explore and a lot more to learn when we do.” Making matters worse, the one space walker who gets heckled by conspiracy theorists the most, Buzz Aldrin, agrees with him. What are you hiding Buzz?
President Obama just dashed the dreams of millions of space geeks by asking NASA to kill their proposed 2020 mission to the moon and focus on more important stuff instead. |NYT|
Hours after NASA’s uneventful attack on the moon, a crater was renamed the “John Lennon Peace Crater.” The International Lunar Geographic Society, the leading real estate agency for Moon property, announced the honorary name change goes into effect today, the 69th anniversary of the former Beatles-member’s birthday. Strangely, Michael Jackson got a crater named for him earlier this summer, just months after his death, not the 29 years it took for Lennon. |Imagine Peace|
Forty years ago today, Apollo 11 became the first manned mission to land on the Moon. Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin touched down and walked on the surface as Michael Collins orbited above. Conspiracy theorists continue to claim that the lunar landing, as well as the five subsequent missions, were a hoax. And nearly seven years ago, Buzz Aldrin punched one of them in the face. Read more »
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