Showing posts with label moon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label moon. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 27, 2025

I came of age during the JFK years. The grief is personal.

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How do I tell my grown-ass children about the life and times of JFK? How I was nine when he was elected and 13 when he was assassinated? Tha...
Monday, July 17, 2023

The accountants who got us to the moon, July 1969 -- Part 2

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I stepped off the plane at the old Jacksonville airport expecting the worst. It was after dark and August’s heat and humidity wrapped me in ...
Sunday, July 16, 2023

The accountants who got us to the moon, July 1969 -- Part 1

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Over 400,000 people worked on the Apollo Program. – From the end credits of Richard Linklater’s Netflix film “Apollo 10½: A Space Age Child...
Sunday, June 19, 2022

"For All Mankind" shows what the U.S, space program could have been

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As I move on to the second season of “For All Mankind” on Apple-Plus, I keep asking the same question: What happened to us? By us, I mean U....
Monday, July 15, 2019

1969 moon landing memories linger on the beach and in The House of the One-Eyed Seahorse

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I like to think that I was a witness to history during Moon Landing Week in July 1969. I witnessed the launch from the beach the morning o...
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Monday, May 15, 2017

Scouting report: Finding the best Wyoming spot to watch the eclipse

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View from The Castle, looking west toward Laramie Peak. The family and I drove to Guernsey State Park for Mother's Day. This is only...
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Sunday, April 08, 2012

In search of spring's Pink Moon

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After reading about “the pink moon” on Facebook for several days, my daughter Annie and I decided to take a look for ourselves. Each full ...
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Monday, July 20, 2009

Bowie's "Space Oddity" came out before U.S. walked on the moon

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"Space Oddity" by David Bowie, was released to coincide with the Apollo 11 moon landing. The BBC featured the song during its TV c...

Man in the Moon is so very lonely

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Lots of newspaper articles and TV coverage marking the 40th anniversary of the U.S. moon landing. All of them seem to ask the same question:...