Abhay Bhushan- In July 1969, I was a student at MIT in Boston when humanity first set steps on the Moon. As I was very much interested in space, communication satellites, and rockets, this was of special interest to me. As a teenager in the 1950’s, I read science fiction books and dreamt of […]
IANS- The world on Saturday celebrated the success of Apollo 11 — one of humanity’s greatest achievements — when American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin became the first humans ever to land on the Moon on July 20, 1969. US Vice President Mike Pence was set to visit NASA’s Kennedy Space Center […]
IANS- Long before the Apollo 11 put a man on lunar soil, the Moon had been photographed via unmanned missions and telescopes. An upcoming exhibition here traces how the lunar surface was captured starting as early as the 1850s. The photo-show “By the Light of the Silvery Moon: A Century of Lunar Photographs” opens […]
