Some of my favorite recent images from NASA's Earth Observatory Image of the Day: Swirling sea ice near Baffin Island (credit: NASA/Terra/MODIS) Apollo 11 landing site (credit: NASA/Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter). Images of other Apollo landing sites are at NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter site. The orbiter isn't in its final orbit, and future images will have …
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Apollo 11 — 40 years later
I was eight years old when Apollo 11 went to the moon, and was glued to the television every step along the way (with the reporting of Walter Cronkite). I watched the first step on the moon on our black and white television. When there was a break, I ran over to a friend's house---one …
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