Tag: NASA

  • Apollo 11

    Apollo 11

    It’s been almost 47 years since mankind last walked on the moon. The 1972 moon landing came a little more than three years after Apollo 11, meaning all 12 men to have ever walked on the hallowed lunar surface did so in the course of three years, four months, and 23 days. The above numbers…

  • Hidden Figures

    Hidden Figures

    When I was a child the science museum in my hometown hosted a traveling exhibit featuring all kinds of information about the moon, the U.S. space program, and even some samples of lunar rock (which is less interesting to look at when you’re ten-years-old than it sounds). To prepare for our field trip to the…