Remembering Neil Armstrong, the Stuff of LegendsBrian McLaughlin
Not to rain on anyone's parade—but a balloon-faring Dutchman walked on the moon some 140 years before Neil Armstrong did. In theSouthern Literary Messengerof June 1835, Edgar Allan Poe published the first installment of that prodigious fable, which he unsuccessfully tried to pass off as a ...
teams up again with Ryan Gosling to tell the story of the first man to step foot on the moon. Neil Armstrong was a complicated man. He kept to himself, even when around his wife Janet (Claire Foy). After the death of their daughter, life didn’t seem to have much meaning for Neil,...
We scanned it so we had a digital 3D print so we can photograph it during different times of the day to give us different reflections of the surface to use when he's in space. The mission in the film was very much inspired by Neil Armstrong's mission when he flew in the X-15 and...
1969: On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin are the first men to set foot on the Moon during the Apollo 11 mission, helped by their colleague Michael Collins, who remains in lunar orbit. Five more Apollo missions successfully explore the Moon until the final one, Apoll...
Not sure I’m ready to “come back” to blogging, but I have a lot in my head about this book, and I wanna get all the words outta my head, ok? I also need Netflix or HBO to make a TV show of The Grace of Sorcerers. Because reasons. Non-spoilery stuff: the Hua’s are ...
In this version of events, relegating Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to runner-up status proves to be the spark that lifts the space race to new levels of competitiveness. Where America’s real-life excursions to the moon ended with Apollo 17 in 1972, the For All Mankind-verse envision...
There are many legacy players in the space industry, even legends like Neil Armstrong, who've expressed dismay that a private company will now control a process that has always been controlled by NASA and the military. “Technically I think we’ve probably got, in absolute numbers, more peopl...
-Neil Pasricha3 “Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it.” -Daniel Kahneman4 “People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it’s impossible to count them accurately.” ...
solar system, all of the constellations, and a real-time night sky simulation. Moments in Time experiences give an idea of what it’s like to stand on the surface of the Moon like Neil Armstrong or explore Mars using the Curiosity Rover, or you can feel what it’s like to float in ...