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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