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Revisiting the Failed Soviet Moon Program
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Oct. 18) -- Who won the space race, again? With the Space Shuttle set to be decommissioned next year and no viable replacement in sight, the current thinking is that American astronauts will have to resort to "hitchhiking" rides into space on the Russian Soyuz craft. Such a state of affairs has been widely criticized by space program vets, some of whom see it as a relinquishment of decades of American scientific advantage. (Buzz Aldrin is one notable exception.) But that said, it's worth revisiting a time when such advantage, real or perceived, was far from assured. Wired (via ...
New Footage of Neil Armstrong Moonwalk Surfaces
By Hugh Collins - AOL News(Sept. 29) -- Previously lost footage of Neil Armstrong's 1969 moonwalk will be shown in Australia next week. The recording, unnoticed for years in archives in Australia, shows the first few minutes of the astronaut's descent from Apollo 11. The footage, which was misplaced for years, is believed to be some of the best-quality pictures of the moonwalk. "NASA were using the Goldstone (California) station signal, which had its settings wrong, but in the signals being received by the Australian stations, you can actually see Armstrong, " historian John Sarkissian told Agence France-Presse. ...
Pulling the Plug on Space Travel: One Small Step for Obama's Budgetary Math
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyWhen John Kennedy made his commitment to land a man on the moon by the end of 1960s, the New Frontier president expressed a dream that went far beyond Cold War pride in planting an American flag on the lunar surface. Addressing a joint session of Congress on May 25, 1961, Kennedy also spoke glowingly of the "promise of some day providing a means for even more exciting and ambitious exploration of space, perhaps beyond the moon, perhaps to the very end of the solar system itself." Nearly half a century later, the last flickering embers of that dream were extinguished in a single bullet point ...
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