On February 27, tech entrepreneur Elon Musk announced that two unnamed people are paying his rocket company, SpaceX, to send them on an auto-piloted trip around the moon in 2018. Later The Washington Post revealed that Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos and his own rocket company, Blue Origin, had circulated a 2020 moon colonization plan around Capitol Hill.
Category: History Movies
Former Astronaut Captain James A. Lovell Named To The Board Of…
The National Museum of the American Sailor Foundation appointed Captain James A. Lovell, U.S. Navy and former NASA astronaut, to the Foundation’s board of directors. NMASF is working to create the only museum dedicated exclusively to the enlisted sailor.
9 prominent early astronauts carrying on US space history
Early U.S. space history is fading with the deaths of Gene Cernan , the last man to walk on the moon, John Glenn , the last of the Mercury 7 astronauts, and Neil Armstrong , the first man to walk on the moon. But others survive, veterans of a time when Americans were glued to their television sets to watch their heroics, from fiery Saturn V launches to ocean splashdowns.
TV Movie Menu: Start with Apollo 13 or Ita s A Wonderful Life
As we busily prepare for the holidays, the movies this weekend offer a chance to relax and refresh. Take a look at what’s showing on broadcast and standard cable.