10 Aug The Montclair Times Editorial: “Buzz 46th year”
June 16, 2015. Exactly 46 years ago, on June 16, 1969, a Saturn V rocket carrying Apollo 11 soared from the Kennedy Space Center. Aboard were astronauts Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and...
10 Aug Buzz Aldrin says the UAE’s Mars mission is ‘ambitious’
During their Dubai stopover, Aldrin also lauded the UAE’s own ambitious achievements and one of its latest bold dreams, to reach Mars. The country announced its new national space agency and Mars mission earlier this year. However, Aldrin said the Mars mission could prove too difficult. “Mars...
05 Aug Buzz Aldrin’s Surprise Paperwork From Moon Mission
Even after a trip to the moon, Buzz Aldrin still had to clear customs. The American astronaut has been sharing some of his travel documents from his 1969 moon landing mission. While some of the information on the forms is routine, other areas yield surprising insights...
05 Aug Buzz Aldrin’s travel expenses for mission to moon and back: $33.31
It's the travel expense claim to top all others -- $33.31 to go to the moon and back. American astronaut Buzz Aldrin has been sharing some of his paperwork from the 1969 moon landing mission. The forms, an intriguing mix of the mundane and the extraordinary, include...
05 Aug Cosmosphere completes conservation of recovered Apollo engines
It is a bittersweet time for Jerrad Alexander. For more than two years, he has been part of a local four-person crew working to conserve pieces of several stage-one Saturn V rocket engines that launched Apollo missions to the moon, recovered from deep in the ocean,...