Commentary / World Jul 19, 2019
by Brahma Chellaney
Guaranteeing the freedom to navigate the stars has become no less essential to global peace than safeguarding the freedom to navigate the seas.
Asia Pacific / Science & Health Jul 19, 2019
Moon landing's 'Dish' telescope still transmitting from Australia
It is known as "The Dish" and it soars above a nondescript paddock in rural Australia. Without it, hundreds of millions of people would never have seen all of the generation-defining footage of Neil Armstrong walking on the moon 50 years ago. An estimated 600 ...
World / Science & Health Jul 19, 2019
Wernher Von Braun: Apollo hero, rocket builder for Hitler, father
Wernher von Braun was the rocket engineer who designed the Nazi's dreaded V-2 missile that rained death on Allied cities in World War II, and later the visionary architect behind the Apollo program that put man on the moon. But to his children, he was ...
World Jul 17, 2019
Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins returns to launchpad 50 years later
Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins returned Tuesday to the exact spot where he flew to the moon 50 years ago with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. Collins had the spotlight to himself this time — Armstrong has been gone for seven years and Aldrin canceled. ...
World / Science & Health Jul 16, 2019
Robots to install telescopes to peer into cosmos from the moon
by Joey Roulette
As the United States races to put humans back on the moon for the first time in nearly 50 years, a NASA-funded lab in Colorado aims to send robots there to deploy telescopes that will look far into our galaxy, remotely operated by orbiting ...
Asia Pacific / Science & Health Jul 15, 2019
India on Monday called off the launch of a rocket aiming to take a probe to the moon less than one hour before blast-off because of a "technical" problem. India had hoped that the Chandrayaan-2 — or Moon Chariot 2 — mission would make it ...
World / Science & Health | FOCUS Jul 14, 2019
To the moon and back: 50 years on, a giant leap into the unknown
by Ivan Couronne
The first four days of Apollo 11's journey to the moon had gone according to plan, but just 20 minutes before landing, the atmosphere grew tense as the crew encountered a series of problems. It was July 20, 1969, and as the world followed the ...
World / Science & Health Jul 14, 2019
The first steps on another world: Celebrating Apollo 11 at 50
by Marcia Dunn
Half a century ago, in the middle of a mean year of war, famine, violence in the streets and the widening of the generation gap, men from planet Earth stepped onto another world for the first time, uniting people around the globe in a ...
World / Science & Health Jul 14, 2019
Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins: Apollo 11's ace, scholar and wordsmith
by Marcia Dunn
Mission commander Neil Armstrong was the flying ace, Buzz Aldrin the scholar. Michael Collins was a crack test pilot, too, but also a wordsmith who described the trio as "amiable strangers." Apollo 11's astronauts had six months to gel as a crew and prepare for ...
World / Science & Health Jul 14, 2019
What it's like on the moon: Hard soil, big jumps ... and epiphanies
Twelve American men walked on the moon between 1969 and 1972, with most describing in great detail their experiences on the dusty, low-gravity world lit by the blinding light of the sun. Here are their impressions, collected from a series of oral history interviews by ...
World / Science & Health | FOCUS Jul 14, 2019
1969 moon landing was a giant leap for moviemakers, too
by Jake Coyle
In 1964, Stanley Kubrick, on the recommendation of the science-fiction author Arthur C. Clarke, bought a telescope. "He got this Questar and he attached one of his cameras to it," said Katharina Kubrick, the filmmaker's stepdaughter. "On a night where there was a lunar eclipse, ...
Asia Pacific / Science & Health Jul 12, 2019
India is looking to take a giant leap in its space program and solidify its place among the world's spacefaring nations with its second unmanned mission to the moon, this one aimed at landing a rover near the unexplored south pole. The Indian Space Research ...