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Eight Years to the Moon: The History of the Apollo Mission by Nancy Atkinson Page Street Publishing, 2019 hardcover, 240 pp., illus. ISBN 978-1-62414-490-5 US$35.00 The surge of books published in recent months tied to the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 has typically included similar casts of characters. There’s Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins, of course; John F. Kennedy and other ...

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A copy of the famous “Earthrise” photo given by astronaut Frank Borman to Father Daniel

As the nation prepares to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, including a light show on

The Home Planet creeps slowly above the lunar horizon, as viewed from Apollo 11. Only a handful of men have seen this view in more than two million years of human history. Photo Credit: NASA When Apollo 11 and its three-man crew—Neil Armstrong, Mike Collins and Buzz Aldrin—rose into space 50 years ago, this month, they embarked on the grandest ...

Artist’s concept of one of NASA’s Voyager spacecraft, including the location of the cosmic ray subsystem (CRS) instrument. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech With all of the current and recent planetary missions throughout the Solar System, it may be easy to forget sometimes that there are still some older spacecraft that have been traveling for decades now. Two of these – Voyagers ...

Chasing the Moon: The People, the Politics, and the Promise That Launched America into the Space Age by Robert Stone and Alan Andres Ballatine, 2019 hardcover, 384 pp., illus. ISBN 978-1-5247-9812-3 US$32.00 As the 50th anniversary celebrations of Apollo 11 reach their crescendo this month, television is getting into the act. A number of documentaries and other special programming is ...

A Man on the Moon and Apollo: The Race to the Moon are among the now-classic accounts of the

The story of a chimp named Boris landing on the Moon started as a tall tale on the Internet but