To continue my little tradition of looking back to the corresponding point in time as far into Apollo 11's past as Apollo 11 is to us, let us hop beyond that historic beacon to that year opposite it in the same time interval, to a time nearing the frontiers of the horizon of living ...
As a child in the post-Apollo glow, the notion that I would go to space one day seemed inevitable and obvious. Then the Challenger exploded, the Columbia exploded, and our collective dreams withered on the vine. Now it seems inevitable and obvious that I will not ever slip the surly bond...
NASA 1969: Apollo 11 mission The Apollo 11 spacecraft reached lunar orbit on July 19, 1969. As Neil Armstrong stepped onto the surface of the moon, the astronaut famously declared, "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." In this NASA photo, fellow astronaut Buzz...
Since her Apollo Theater debut at age 10, vocalist Marlena Shaw has been wowing audiences with her versatility. She has defied categorization for four decades, mixing soul, blues, jazz, and even glitzy disco on her groundbreaking LPs and nightclub programs. Shaw, who spent 1968 to 1972 honing ...
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aThirty-five years ago, on April 11, 1970, Apollo 13 lifted off for the Moon with Commander Jim Lovell, Command Module Pilot Jack Swigert and Lunar Module Pilot Fred Haise aboard. Two days later, with the spacecraft well on its way to the Moon, an oxygen tank exploded, scrubbing the ...
(Mine has a removable optical element with 1.25" filter threads that i can mount directly in front of the camera). With a small spacing (about 5mm between the camera face and the Barlow I get 1.5x magnification out of the 2x Barlow. If you did that then your f/24 would turn out to...
Somebright starsare much more distant still. Betelgeuse, in the constellationOrion, is about 640 light years away. If Betelgeuse exploded tomorrow (andit will explode one day), we wouldn't know about it for centuries. Even without a telescope we can see much much further. The Andromeda galax...