A few modest contributions to the blogosphere from Andy Fluke,
co-founder of the National Coalition
for Dialogue & Deliberation.
From the Astronomy Photo of the Day site, an amazing image of the moon…
Click on the photo to get the full size version. Read about the image here.
By far the most ambitious online celebration of the Apollo Moon Landing that I have found today while exploring the interwebs has to be the JFK Presidential Library’s WeChooseTheMoon.org.
The library museum also has a new exhibit: Moon Shot – JFK and Space Exploration…
This special exhibit in the Museum at the JFK Presidential Library celebrates the 40th anniversary of the first Moon landing and President Kennedy’s grand vision that made the achievement possible.
Featuring three, never-before-displayed NASA prototype drawings of gear developed for the 1965 Mercury Atlas-9 Mission, this exhibit illustrates the elements of imagination and engineering that combined to achieve the successful Moon landing.
My favorite internet radio station, SomaFM, just got a whole lot better. I received the following email this morning and I’ve been listening to the stream all day:
Celebrate the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11 and landing on the Moon, with a live NASA rebroadcast set to music as part of SomaFM’s new “Mission Control” channel.
Also available on our iPhone and Palm Pre streams.
Mission Control will feature ambient space music that’s somewhere between Space Station Soma and Drone Zone, mixed with NASA audio. In the future, we’ll have other historical space exploration rebroadcasts as well as live Space Shuttle coverage.
Tune in here and enjoy an intoxicating blend of history and ambient music.
With video games, of course!
Lunar Lander, an excellent recreation by Seb Lee-Delisle. From his blog…
A few years ago, as a tribute to the early pioneers of arcade gaming, I decided to recreate Lunar Lander in Flash, with painstaking attention to detail and accuracy! And what did I do to celebrate this great achievement? Did I shout about it from the rooftops? Did I post it on the internet for everyone to share and enjoy? Did I write a blog post about it? Well actually no, I just sat on it and it’s been laying there burning a hole on my hard drive all this time.
But now you can finally play it! And it is very accurate. I remember the arcade version of this game, and not very fondly either. I doubt I ever landed safely (and I never had enough quarters to gain even a little competence). But now I can play to my hearts content. I have indeed landed, but always hard and my poor, tiny, vector astronauts are always stranded. Sigh. There’s also an Apollo 11 Commemorative Version.
So all the news networks are loving today’s 40th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing. Of course, they can’t help themselves and must give some air time to the idiots who believe the whole thing was a hoax. But what about the real cover-up? I mean, no one ever mentions the fact that all the audio recordings had to be re-recorded to cover up the initial, colorful (and totally understandable) exclamations the astronauts and mission control made. Sure they were a little embarrassed, but they were just being real…
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