The story of the Apollo 11 moon landing, as told through data (video)
[video link] This data visualization of the Apollo 11 moon mission gathers social and technical data from the 1969 lunar landing in video form. The horizontal axis is an interactive timeline. The...
View ArticleNeil Armstrong, first human on moon, "doing great" after heart surgery
Astronaut and "first man" Neil Armstrong is "doing great" after undergoing cardiac bypass surgery. He and his wife live in the Cincinnati, Ohio area and he just celebrated his 82nd birthday this past...
View ArticlePink Floyd moon landing space jam, 1969: "Moonhead"
[Video Link] A few weeks ago, I blogged about my new obsession with early to mid-era Pink Floyd oddities. Following the death of astronaut Neil Armstrong this weekend, the NYT Lede blog points to a...
View ArticleMiles O'Brien on Neil Armstrong
"He was really an engineer's engineer -- a modest man who was always uncomfortable in his singular role as the first person to set foot on the moon. He understood and appreciated the historic...
View ArticleWhen Neil Armstrong emailed Robert Krulwich
NPR's Robert Krulwich (one of the greatest science journalists ever IMO, and a personal hero of mine) writes about the day he received an email from the late astronaut Neil Armstrong. Krulwich...
View ArticleWatch Neil Armstrong narrowly escape a 1968 training accident
This silent film clip, posted at the Smithsonian's Air & Space Magazine blog, is one of the most amazing things I've seen in a while. First off, it shows a 1968 test run of a lunar landing...
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Steve Jurvetson, on the recurring nightmare Neil Armstrong had for two years...
Venture capitalist, photographer, and master-level space fanatic Steve Jurvetson has been digging in to his archives for snapshots and relics related to the life and legacy of the late astronaut Neil...
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Happy birthday to Neil Armstrong
Steve Jurvetson (of venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson) posts this photograph of himself with "the true Armstrong hero," on the occasion of the late astronaut Neil Armstrong's birthday --...
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Over 8,400 NASA Apollo moon mission photos just landed online, in...
Space fans, rejoice: today, just about every image captured by Apollo astronauts on lunar missions is now on the Project Apollo Archive Flickr account. There are some 8,400 photographs in all at a...
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The latest trailer for Universal Pictures'"First Man" about Neil Armstrong is...
The latest trailer for Universal Pictures' First Man packs a whole lotta action and drama into a 2-minute 14-second package. The movie chronicles the life of astronaut Neil Armstrong, his first manned...
View ArticleThis hoodie looks like the spacesuit Neil Armstrong wore on the Apollo 11...
Can't help but love GearHumans' astronaut suit hoodie ($45.99). The image is a 3D-photo print of the spacesuit that Neil Armstrong wore in 1969 during his Apollo 11 moon mission. It ships with his last...
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Chinese flag pictured on the moon
China's space program took significant leaps for mankind Thursday as it's lunar lander, a component of the space vehicle the Chang'e 5, gathered rocks and left the moon to return to Earth. Before the...
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