Today we are told the Moon will be at its perigee,
its closest approach in an elliptical orbit, and will appear much larger than
normal. It is an ironic twist that it is
also the day Commander Alan Shepard began the United States' journey towards it with a brief suborbital flight.
So now 51 years later we are actually further
from the moon than we were then.
Rest in Peace: Admiral Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. (USN), LtCol Virgil Ivan (Gus) Grissom (USAF), Captain Walter Marty (Wally) Schirra Jr. (USN), Colonel Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr. (USAF) and Major Donald Kent (Deke) Slayton (USAF).
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My wife and I watched "The Dish" last night, an enjoyable film about an Aussie town drawn into the Apollo 11 mission by virtue of their having the largest radio telescope in the southern hemisphere. Probably not the best screenplay, but fun.
I really enjoyed "The Dish" too.
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