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Irish Stamps Celebrate 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11 Landing on Ireland
The Irish postal service joined in with the excitement surrounding the 50th anniversary of the Americans leaving a few bags of poo on the moon as a proto-metaphor for the US of 2019, and released some commemorative stamps featuring Neil Armstrong and everyone’s favourite trivia answer Michael Collins. Sadly, a misspelling of the Irish word…
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Former NASA Intern Scores $3 Million For Moon Landing Tapes He Bought At Auction
Former NASA intern Gary George sold off three of the agency’s videotapes of the Apollo 11 moon landing for $US1.82 ($3) million at auction house Sotheby’s on Sunday, the 50th anniversary of the event, CNN reported.
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NASA Abruptly Reassigns Top Human Exploration Program Officials As Trump Moon Mandate Looms
NASA’s longtime associate administrator for its human exploration program, William Gerstenmaier, has been re-assigned to be a special adviser to NASA Deputy Administrator Jim Morhard in what seems like a fairly clear demotion, the Washington Post reported on Thursday.
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An Aerospace Engineer Figured Out How To Get LEGO’s Apollo 11 Lunar Lander To Fly
Video: It isn’t quite as challenging as actually landing a pair of astronauts on the Moon, but aerospace engineer and talented toy hacker Adam Woodworth has managed to upgrade LEGO’s Apollo 11 Lunar Lander set with all the motors and electronics needed to make it actually fly, letting him recreate that memorable landing all over…