Politically speaking, sending humans into space brings nations together – the International Space Station stood as the physical manifestation of the reunification of the USA and Russia and is now a platform for broader international co-operation. Space exploration is also inspiring: during NASA’s Apollo programme to...
Back in June 2013, Montclair honored astronaut Buzz Aldrin with a a key to Montclair, a plaque at Montclair High School, and the renaming of STEM small learning community at the high school as the Buzz Aldrin STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Math) Academy. In...
While an international human mission to the surface of Mars in the 2030s deserves a thumbs up, green-light go, that trek to the Red Planet will require sufficient and stable long- term funding, as well as a critical series of risk-reduction activities in the 2020s. A...
If a man can land on the moon, then it should be very simple to name a school after one of the most famous people to ever come out of Montclair. There's a bust of native son Buzz Aldrin, who famously walked on the moon with...
Jan. 20, 2015, marked Aldrin's 85th birthday. In honor of this brave man, I constructed the following numerical brainteasers as a birthday gift for him: 1. Aldrin's 84th birthday: If numbers 1 to 26 are assigned to the letters of the English alphabet (A = 1,...