Tag Archives : Neil Armstrong

We phone to practically do all our tasks and chores. Such is our dependency on the gadget that AG Bell must be wearing this everlasting smug smile even in his grave (may his sould rest in peace). Well, but there is a buyer who actually made a whopping and winning bid via one that amounted to a sum of $506,000. All this for a non-flying 1917 wooden seaplane [...]

“That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind,” were the words of NASA astronaut, Neil Armstrong, when he along with Buzz Aldrin and other astronauts landed and placed their first steps on the moon. Now, on the 40th anniversary of man’s landing on the moon, Google released an addition to its Google Earth application, [...]

One of the most historic moments for mankind, was the landing of the Apollo mission on the moon in the year 1969, a date that has been recorded as one of the most endearing of times in history. Today, the moon mission’s souvenirs went on auction at Bonhams auction in New York. This one of a kind auction included navigation charts used by the Apollo [...]

So, NASA was competent enough to put man on moon and later on send a space probe to Mars, but it was too dumb to preserve the footage transmitted by Apollo 11. What seems downright more stupid is not that they misplaced the tapes or lost in an accident, but the wise men decided to tape over the original footage as NASA was short of video tapes in the [...]

It is unbelievable that 40 years have passed since man has first landed on the man to ensure that does not leave out Earth’s satellite and its surrounding space when it comes to trashing and leaving behind absolute rubbish. Well, in 40 years we have done that and a lot more, but that historic moment when Edwin Aldrin chickened out of stepping first [...]