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- Leland August 2012
- MirandaJuly August 2012
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Goodbye moon dude Neil Armstrong
50 years ago, President John F Kennedy challenged Americans to land a man on the moon.
No one would argue that it wasn't an extension of military programs and a competition with the Soviet Union-Russia who had Sputniked the USA with the first satellite, and the first man in space, Yuri Gagarin. But that whole American effort, ultimately successful developed a ton of science and technology, including digital electronics, materials and quality tech. The first earthrise over the moon photographed by astronauts orbiting la luna in 1968 contributed strongly to the zeitgeist of the environmental movement. The idea that in fact we could actually destroy our small spaceship planet is under hard attack today. Those same actors are arguing to eliminate funding for satellite studies of our earth.
The first man there was Neil Armstrong on July 20, 1969. NASA got how to televise the revolution: http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/kids/science-space-kids/1969-moonlanding-vin-kids/
Mr Armstrong passed Saturday.
In our post-news world, the NBC News website reported: “Astronaut Neil Young, first man to walk on the moon, dies at age 82.”
There was a very cool PICA performance a few years ago incorporating the spiritual writings of astronauts. Armstrong was famously home town, low key, paparazzi shy and claimed no organized religion.
Good bye first moon human!
No one would argue that it wasn't an extension of military programs and a competition with the Soviet Union-Russia who had Sputniked the USA with the first satellite, and the first man in space, Yuri Gagarin. But that whole American effort, ultimately successful developed a ton of science and technology, including digital electronics, materials and quality tech. The first earthrise over the moon photographed by astronauts orbiting la luna in 1968 contributed strongly to the zeitgeist of the environmental movement. The idea that in fact we could actually destroy our small spaceship planet is under hard attack today. Those same actors are arguing to eliminate funding for satellite studies of our earth.
The first man there was Neil Armstrong on July 20, 1969. NASA got how to televise the revolution: http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/kids/science-space-kids/1969-moonlanding-vin-kids/
Mr Armstrong passed Saturday.
In our post-news world, the NBC News website reported: “Astronaut Neil Young, first man to walk on the moon, dies at age 82.”
There was a very cool PICA performance a few years ago incorporating the spiritual writings of astronauts. Armstrong was famously home town, low key, paparazzi shy and claimed no organized religion.
Good bye first moon human!
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