PR News Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
PARIS, November 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Lola Karimova-Tillyaeva, permanent representative of the Republic of Uzbekistan to UNESCO and founder of Fund Uzbekistan 2020, opened today, the International Astronomy Conference held in Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris - CNRS, "A tribute to the Uzbek astronomer Mirzo Ulughbeg".
ArmsControlWonk (Free subscription) | yesterday
Many things remain unknown about Sweden’s nuclear programme, especially why it was suddenly discontinued. It is interesting to note, of course, that the US intelligence community estimated that Sweden was on its way to the weapon up until 1964. Later intelligence assessments are considerably more cautious. That’s probably because our American cousins knew that Sweden wasn’t seeking...
Auxiliary Memory (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
I’ve read other memoirs by the Apollo astronauts who went to the Moon, most of whom wrote about their tremendous efforts to become space jocks and their stories always peaked with their lunar adventures. Buzz Aldrin second autobiographical book starts with the Apollo 11 landing and quickly wraps that adventure up, because his book is [...]
WB Blog (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Buzz Aldrin: Why We Need Better Rockets http://bit.ly/1e7evG
France24 (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
The second man to set foot on the moon, former US astronaut Buzz Aldrin, urged Brazil to start investing in manned space flights if it doesn't want to miss out on their huge economic potential. It would be an "unforgivable mistake" if a country in full development like Brazil failed to plan for its future in space, Aldrin, 69 told Globo.com in a telephone interview Tuesday shortly after...
Baristanet (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
If you had asked me at age ten what I was going to do with my life, I would have said that I was going to study math and astrophysics at MIT, join the Air Force, log my required flight hours, and after that, become an astronaut when I grew up. That is the power of childhood heroes. None of that has happened (yet), but I can't blame Montclair's hometown hero Buzz Aldrin for that, and reading his new...
eWeek (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
The decision by Time magazine to name the test launch of NASA's Ares I rocket as the best invention of the year quickly slammed by Space Frontier Foundation and Apollo moonwalker Buzz Aldrin. SFF calls Time's pick a propaganda triumph for NASA. - The SFF (Space Frontier Foundation) mockingly congratulated NASA Nov. 16 for its quot;propaganda triumph quot; in convincing Time Magazine to name the Ares...
Curbed LA (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Someone on the LA County Board of Supervisors must know something the rest of us don't. Can it be a coincidence that the same week they name Buzz Aldrin "Honorary Consul General to the Moon from Los Angeles County," NASA announces they've found water on the moon? [LAT, NASA]
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
The Board of Supervisors declares the astronaut 'Honorary Consul General to the Moon from Los Angeles County.' The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is heading for the final frontier: Space.
The Michigan Daily (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Space was sexy in the 60s. The decade is known for the Space Race, when the United States sent men to the moon in an effort to outstrip the Soviet Union in space exploration. Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, Jr. became national heroes. Armstrong’s famous quote — “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind” — reverberated in...
Boston Herald (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
LOS ANGELES - The space cadets of La-La have given moonwalker Buzz Aldrin a new title: Honorary consul general to the moon. Forty years after Aldrin took the second small...
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
At the behest of Supervisor Mike Antonovich, the board is appointing Gemini 12 and Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin as its very own "Honorary Consul General to the Moon from Los Angeles County."
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Los Angeles County has given moonwalker Buzz Aldrin a new title: Honorary consul general to the moon.
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Los Angeles County has given moonwalker Buzz Aldrin a new title: Honorary consul general to the moon.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
LOS ANGELES -- Los Angeles County has given moonwalker Buzz Aldrin a new title: Honorary consul general to the moon.
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