Showing posts with label moon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label moon. Show all posts
Saturday, July 20, 2019

Fifty years ago tonight...

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"Good luck, Mister Gorsky!" Okay, there was never a "Mister Gorsky" and Armstrong never said that.  But everyone else i...
Monday, December 24, 2018

Christmas Eve 1968: "...and God bless all of you, all of you on the good Earth."

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1968 was perhaps the most turbulent year of the most turbulent decade of modern history.  Assassinations, wars, upheaval - sometimes peacefu...
Tuesday, October 02, 2012

Bad Moon Rising: British cop's call for backup leads to luna-tickling mistake

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A police officer in Great Britain is weathering international ribbing after calling in for reinforcements to help with a potentially dangero...
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Saturday, August 25, 2012

"The Eagle has landed."

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Neil Armstrong 1930 - 2012
Thursday, January 26, 2012

Newt Gingrich promises permanent Moon base by 2020

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That's if he's elected President, 'course (and if he wins re-election in 2016). Read about Gingrich's plans for a lunar est...
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Thursday, August 05, 2010

Happy 80th Birthday to Neil Armstrong

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The Knight Shift and its eclectic proprietor would like to join the very many other admirers of Dr. Neil Armstrong in wishing him all the b...
Wednesday, November 18, 2009

International Space Station transits the Moon

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Bernhard Christ, an amateur astronomer from Germany, put himself in just the right spot on the Earth's surface (a testament to his mad p...
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