KNOW IT ALL SPECIAL: FIVE FAITH FACTS ABOUT THE MOON LANDING – SPACE COMMUNION AND A PRAYER LEAGUE OF ITS OWN
In a special ahead of this weekend’s 50th anniversary of the 1969 Moon landing, EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER and JACK JENKINS, of Religion News Service, look at five “faith facts” related to the lunar event…
‘The Dish’ still beaming signals from Australia 50 years after Moon walk
Parkes, AustraliaReuters It’s known as “The Dish” and it soars above a nondescript paddock in rural Australia. Without it, hundreds of millions of people would never have seen all of the generation-defining footage of Neil Armstrong walking on the Moon 50 years ago. An estimated 600 million people around the world held their collective breath […]
ESSAY: THE JUBILEE OF THE MOON LANDING IS A CHANCE TO ASSESS TECHNOLOGY’S PROMISE
In an article first published by Religion News Service, JULIE SCHONFELD, managing director of US-based Leading Ethics, looks at the promise of technology…
ESSAY: FIVE MOON LANDING INNOVATIONS THAT CHANGED LIFE ON EARTH
In an article first published on The Conversation, JEAN CREIGHTON, of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, looks at some of the benefits from the 1969 moon landing…
ESSAY: FIVE ETHICAL QUESTIONS FOR HOW WE CHOOSE TO USE THE MOON
With the world about to mark the 50th anniversary of the first Moon landing, EVIE KENDAL, of Australia’s Deakin University, looks at, in an article first published on The Conversation, some of the ethical questions around the Moon’s future…
ESSAY: APOLLO 11 BROUGHT A MESSAGE OF PEACE TO THE MOON – BUT NEIL AND BUZZ ALMOST FORGOT TO LEAVE IT BEHIND
In an article first published on The Conversation, US space lawyer MICHELLE LD HANLON writes – as the world prepares to commemorate the 1969 Moon landing later this year – about the importance of preserving historic sites on the Moon…
STRANGESIGHTS: COOKIE DOUGH CONES; RUSSIA LAUNCHES COSMONAUT SEARCH; AND OLLY’S “ENTHUSIASTIC” EFFORT…
DAVID ADAMS writes about the odder side of life…
ON THE SCREEN: ‘HIDDEN FIGURES’ CONFRONTS SOME HARD TRUTHS, BOTH HISTORIC AND CONTEMPORARY
NILS VON KALM finds that ‘Hidden Figures’, set amid the civil rights struggles of the US the 1960s, has much to say to us today…