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The 1969 moon landing was one of humanity's most impressive achievements, but there was always a chance that things could go terribly wrong. But if the worst happened, and Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were commended to the void of space, Nixon had a stirring speech prepared, one that celebrated the spirit of exploration and the nobility of our lunar dreams. More »
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This just in: The moon landings were not faked. This may not seem like news to you, but to readers of two Bangladeshi newspapers, it's the subject of a surprise apology. Blame a lack of fact-checkers... and fake news sources. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5352750&view=rss&microfeed=true It may be a while before we see another moon landing, but there are plenty of ways to relive the magic of the first. We Choose the Moon provides a real-time reenactment of the Apollo 11 mission, complete with a desktop mission tracker and Twitter feed, while Slate mashes up footage to envision what media coverage of the first moon landing would look like today. Tor asks scifi authors from Charles Stross to Larry Niven to share their recollections of that historic day, and there's always the Onion's expletive-filled reimagining of the Apollo audio feed. More »
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The 40th anniversary of the first Moon landing is right around the corner, and former io9 researcher Andrew Liptak is documenting this momentous event in a series of posts on his blog. Today he's got a detailed backstory on the missions that led up to that amazing first human step on the Moon. He writes: More »
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In honor of Moon, opening today, we went kinda loony (get it?) coming up with our favorite lunar scenes in film and TV. (We restricted the list to our own planet's moon; sorry, Saturn and Endor fans.) Watch them here. More »
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The fellas over at MythBusters start their new series tonight on the Discovery Channel at 9 PM. This year, Jamie and Adam will uncover the mysteries of fainting goats, use explosives to tenderize meat and, most importantly, attempt to end the great debate over the first lunar landing: colossal space moment or massive government conspiracy? We're not going to guess what their final decision is, but they did make the show with the co-operation of NASA, so maybe they're part of said conspiracy... [MythBusters] More »
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The documentary In The Shadow Of The Moon comes out on DVD in a month, and is well worth picking up. Today we take moon landings for granted, but it's been 35 years since Gene Cernan was the last man on the moon (note for you trivia nuts), and we haven't come close to going back. In the intervening years, we've forgotten just what it took for our country to land people safely on the moon, and bring them back home. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=356721&view=rss&microfeed=true 1969 was a great year to be seven-going-on-eight: astronauts were getting ready to land on the moon—and for spellbound earthlings, there were Space Food Sticks. As this vintage ad explains, Space Food Sticks were developed "to meet the demands of a long spaceflight" by the nice folks at Pillsbury. (Can you imagine any product today proclaiming on its box that it was "developed . . . under a government contract"?) More »
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