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A Trip to the Moon on Gossamer Wings - The Berkshire Edge
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A Trip to the Moon on Gossamer Wings - The Berkshire Edge
Attention Selenophiles! This column is for you and all others who might enjoy some poems about our favorite celestial friend, the Moon. The moon has been an important subject in English poetry dating back to Chaucer in the 14th century, who was an astronomer as well as a poet. There is a crater on the far side of the moon named for Chaucer. * * * A 14th century depiction of phases of the moon. Chaucer might have seen this. * * * No surprise that…
R50/ On July 20, 1969 (in Italy it was already 21) the American astronaut Neil Armstrong, together with Buzz Aldrin, was the first man to walk on the satellite, reached on board the spaceship Apollo 11. We republish the article by Franco Prattico written twenty years later, on July 19, 1989
Never Stop Celebrating Apollo 11
It’s always a good time to mark the anniversary of the civilizational feat that was Apollo 11, which lifted off 56 years ago this week. As the NASA History Office X posted, “Hundreds of millions of people around the world watched over the next days as Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins accomplished the goal of landing a man on the Moon by the end of the decade.” Sorry, cynics, Project Apollo wasn’t just a bit of expensive Cold-War …
United Nations International Moon Day
On the Moon there was nothing. No one. Not a small welcoming committee. The fatherland of poets, however, had not a calm river that inspired Machado nor a sad cypress that gave shade to Gerardo Diego. The important thing about the adventure of Apollo XI was not the landing but the road, all that the necessary technological development that the return and return journey of the spacecraft ended up assuming for daily life. ‘The greatest event in hi…
56 years after the first steps of the Man on the Moon, excerpts from an interview with Buzz Aldrin, one of the astronauts of the Apollo 11 mission, resurfaced. There are...
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