All the Apollo missions landed shortly after local sunrise and left well before local noon

Let’s ask the pointed question: should the chapter be a “narrow tent” or a wide one?

Thanks to Jim Lovell’s recent book, “Lost Moon”, and to Ron Howard’s well-received movie dramatization of the “Apollo 13” mission, we begin to suspect we may have been overlooking other opportunities that the inexorable march of time presents.

Those of you who have not yet seen the new Ron Howard movie, Apollo 13, with Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Gary Sinise, and Ed Harris, go see it. It is great! The movie faithfully follows Jim Lovell’s book Lost Moon and is thoroughly factual. Even though you know the outcome, it keeps you on the […]

For all these nine manned missions to the Moon accomplished, six of them landing, so many really basic things were left undone