Earth Current Special -- 40th Anniversary of Apollo 11
Videos
Current News
Moon astronauts urge Mars mission (BBC News, July 20)
Aldrin Reflects On Life After Moon Mission (NPR, July 20)
Astronauts to Mark Apollo Moon Landing With Spacewalk (Yahoo News/Space.com, July 19)
Special Report: Apollo 11's 40th Anniversary (Washington Post, July 19) Site requires free registration
To the Moon, Buzz! Apollo 11 at 40 (N.Y. Times, July 19) Site requires free registration
Who Owns the Moon? The Galactic Government vs. the UN (National Geographic News, July 17)
New NASA Photos Show Apollo Leftovers on the Moon (N.Y. Times, July 17) Site requires free registration
Welcome to Lunarville [What if the Apollo program had not been cancelled?] (New Scientist, July 16)
Houston, We Erased The Apollo 11 Tapes (NPR, July 16)
8 Moon-Landing Hoax Myths -- Busted (National Geographic News, July 16)
Buzz Aldrin, First Man (to Pee) on the Moon, Sounds Off (National Geographic News, July 16)
Restored Moon Landing Video Amazes Anew (National Geographic News, July 16)
Apollo 40 Years On (Nature News, July 16)
Museum battles to preserve moon suits for posterity (Yahoo News/AFP, July 16)
The Moon Still Beckons, But Does Anyone Care? (Space.com, July 15)
Moon Landing Facts: Apollo at 40 (National Geographic News, July 15)
"One Small Step" No Longer Seen as Such a Giant Leap for America (Pew Research Center, July 15)
Neil deGrasse Tyson: Leaving Earth Once Is Not Enough (Space.com, July 14)
On Hand for Space History, as Superpowers Spar (N.Y. Times, July 13) Site requires free registration
That One Small Step Is Still Hard to Measure (N.Y. Times, July 13) Site requires free registration
Vocal Minority Insists It Was All Smoke and Mirrors (N.Y. Times, July 13) Site requires free registration
Getting There: 1969 and 2020 (N.Y. Times, July 13) Site requires free registration
40 Years After Apollo 11: A Note From Neil Armstrong (Space.com, July 10)
Why Neil Armstrong remains an elusive hero (Daily Telegraph, July 9)
Apollo 11: Why the moon still matters (New Scientist, July 8)
Buzz Aldrin: the dark times that followed that historic flight (Daily Telegraph, July 8)
Moon-landing debunkers won't fade away (Florida Today, July 7)
News Story Collections
Apollo special: Another small step (New Scientist)
Apollo 11: The Untold Story (Popular Mechanics)
Google News moon landing search [Links to stories going back to mid-1960s]
Apollo 11 moon landing (Guardian)
Moon Landing Memories [Includes scans of archival news stories, photos, memorabilia, etc.) (Florida Today)
Apollo Program (New York Times) Site requires free registration
Apollo Program (PhysOrg)
Apollo 11 anniversary special (Space.com)
Blogs, RSS, etc.
ApolloPlus40 blog (Nature News)
ApolloPlus40 twitter page [Twitters the Apollo 11 moon mission as it happened--40 years on] (Nature News)
Short Sharp Science: Apollo blog (New Scientist)
Apollo (Universe Today)
NASA Resources
Apollo 11 lunar surface journal
Apollo Program Summary Reports
Kennedy Space Center Apollo 11 site
NASA History Division: Apollo Program
Where No Man Has Gone Before: A History of Apollo Lunar Exploration Missions [Online book]
National Geographic Sources
Books and Clippings in LIS -- NG staff only includes Carrying the Fire, by Michael Collins (1974) An astronaut's life is adventurous by definition. Apollo 11 pilot Michael Collins's account of his own is clean, often funny at his own expense, modestly heroic. The best firsthand account of spaceflight so far, it tells us what it was like up there, encapsulated in the infinity of space, how it felt to fall off the edge of the known world. Cooper Square, 2001.
Photo Gallery: Moon Exploration
National Geographic Index search [Listing of National Geographic-published materials on Apollo program]
Space Special -- "Slipping the bonds: Humans in Space" by Joel Aschenbach
National Geographic Map of the Day -July 20, 1969 — Apollo 11 Lands on the Moon
"First Explorers on the Moon: The Incredible Story of Apollo 11" National Geographic Magazine, December 1969
Audio/Video Sources
Apollo 11 image gallery (NASA)
Apollo 11 video gallery (NASA)
Apollo 11-Lunar Landing [Audio files of air-to-ground communications]
Apollo Mission Lunar Exploration Media Gallery [Includes maps and panoramic and 3D photos] (USGS)
Google Moon [Interactive map with archival photos]
We Choose the Moon [AV recreation to coincide with 40th anniversary] (John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum)
Educational Resources
Apollo Program (National Air & Space Museum)
Apollo to the Moon (National Air & Space Museum)
Apollo 11: Walking on the Moon (Smithsonian)
Apollo 11 Mission (Lunar & Planetary Institute)
Apollo program timeline (Google)
In the Shadow of the Moon [Film companion; includes timeline, biographies and factsheets]
JFK in History: Space Program (John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum)
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