William Anders: Oh my God! Look at that picture over there! There's the Earth coming up. Wow, is that pretty. Frank Borman: Hey, don't take that, it's not scheduled. (joking) Anders: (laughs) You got a color film, Jim? Hand me that roll of color quick, would you... James Lovell: … [Read more...]
Marjorie Hope Nicolson, Moon Flights, and Little Green Men
It’s not very often you get to use the word "charming" for a piece of literary scholarship. That's precisely the word, though, that fits Marjorie Hope Nicolson’s Voyages to the Moon, published in 1948 by the Macmillan Company. The book is 66 years old, which the same age I am until my birthday … [Read more...]
