{"id":8969,"date":"2019-07-06T15:03:37","date_gmt":"2019-07-06T19:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=8969"},"modified":"2019-07-06T15:03:37","modified_gmt":"2019-07-06T19:03:37","slug":"anniversary-of-the-moon-landing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=8969","title":{"rendered":"Anniversary of the Moon Landing"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><strong><em>On the 20th of July, MonSFFA will be celebrating the anniversary of the moon landing fifty years ago! Here are some interesting sites to explore.<\/em><\/strong><\/h5>\n<h3>The Canadian Mint: Two new coins released, one in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mint.ca\/store\/coins\/pure-gold-coin---50th-anniversary-of-the-apollo-11-moon-landing---mintage-700-2019-prod3570032?rcmiid=link|categorypage|Pure_Gold_Coin_-_50th_Anniversary_of_the_Apollo_11_Moon_Landing_-_Mintage_700_2019|Shop-New_Releases_&amp;\">pure gold<\/a>, the other in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mint.ca\/store\/coins\/pure-silver-coin---50th-anniversary-of-the-apollo-11-moon-landing---mintage-5500-2019-prod3570031?rcmiid=link|categorypage|Pure_Silver_Coin_-_50th_Anniversary_of_the_Apollo_11_Moon_Landing_-_Mintage_5500_2019|Shop-New_Releases_&amp;\">pure silver<\/a>.<\/h3>\n<p><em>&#8221; While the United States launched and landed the spacecraft, Canadians also have every reason to celebrate. In fact, many don&#8217;t know that the landing gear for the Apollo 11 Lunar Module was designed by the Canadian company, H\u00e9roux-Devtek. Technically, Canadian technology was the first object of Apollo 11&#8217;s mission to touch the Moon! &#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"about\">\n<div class=\"content-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"patch\">\n<div class=\"title-bar\">\n<div class=\"title-wrap\">\n<h2 class=\"title\">NASA Celebrates 50th Anniversary of Historic Moon Landing with Live TV Broadcast, Events<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p><span id=\"x004ed327d\">It has been explained in this passionate about how consuming animal products is attributed to condition of decreased ejaculate volume and potency, low sperm count, shortened sperm life, poor sperm motility, genetic sperm damage, an also to the enlarged prostate, prostate  <a href=\"http:\/\/deeprootsmag.org\/2013\/07\/08\/musical-echoes-of-days-long-past\/\">women viagra australia<\/a> inflammation, or prostate cancer. This Sildenafil citrate is named a company  <a href=\"http:\/\/deeprootsmag.org\/page\/619\/\">free cialis<\/a> as Kamagra. 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Components  <a href=\"http:\/\/deeprootsmag.org\/2013\/06\/04\/the-city-in-rags\/\">order cheap viagra<\/a> of the herbs may also resemble corticosteroids, which help to inactivate a stress response. <\/span>\n<\/div>\n<section id=\"ember752\" class=\"ember-view collapsible opened\">\n<div class=\"text\">\n<div class=\"dnd-atom-wrapper type-image context-full_width\" contenteditable=\"false\">\n<div class=\"dnd-drop-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/thumbnails\/image\/apollo_50th_full_color_300dpi.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/full_width\/public\/thumbnails\/image\/apollo_50th_full_color_300dpi.png?itok=dWcyToPf\" alt=\"Apollo 50th Logo full color at 300 DPI\" width=\"985\" height=\"613\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"dnd-legend-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"caption\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"credits\">Credits: NASA<\/div>\n<div class=\"link\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NASA will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the historic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/apollo\/missions\/apollo11.html\">Apollo 11<\/a> Moon mission and look to the future of exploration on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/moon2mars\">Moon and Mars<\/a> with a live, two-hour television broadcast Friday, July 19, and partner-led events taking place across the country from July 16 through July 20.\u00a0 List of special events includes a reunion of Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins at the historic launch pad where Apollo 11 began its mission. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/press-release\/nasa-celebrates-50th-anniversary-of-historic-moon-landing-with-live-tv-broadcast\">READ ALL ABOUT<\/a> events around the country.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<h1 class=\"headline\">To the Moon in 11 years: A photographic timeline of Apollo<\/h1>\n<div class=\"description\"><strong><em>In just over a decade, NASA&#8217;s Apollo program overcame tragedy and pioneered new technologies to reach the Moon.<a href=\"http:\/\/astronomy.com\/galleries\/news\/to-the-moon-in-11-years-a-photographic-timeline-of-apollo?\"> http:\/\/astronomy.com\/galleries\/news\/to-the-moon-in-11-years-a-photographic-timeline-of-apollo?<\/a><br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"photo photo1\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<table width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\"><a class=\"cboxElement\" href=\"http:\/\/astronomy.com\/sitefiles\/resources\/image.aspx?item=%7B2E073562-C641-4943-AA6B-A89AE00EC32B%7D\" rel=\"gallery\" rev=\"colorbox\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"width\" src=\"http:\/\/astronomy.com\/-\/media\/Images\/News%20and%20Observing\/News\/2019\/05\/DSCTL061903960.jpg?mw=800\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"patch-right\">\n<div class=\"heading-wrapper\">\n<h1 class=\"heading\">APOLLO 11 IN REAL TIME<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<h5 class=\"subheading1\">A real-time journey through the first landing on the Moon:\u00a0 This website consists entirely of original historical mission material.<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/apolloinrealtime.org\/11\/\">https:\/\/apolloinrealtime.org\/11\/<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><strong>Included real-time elements:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>All mission control film footage<\/li>\n<li>All TV transmissions and onboard film footage<\/li>\n<li>2,000 photographs<\/li>\n<li>11,000 hours of Mission Control audio<\/li>\n<li>240 hours of space-to-ground audio<\/li>\n<li>All onboard recorder audio<\/li>\n<li>15,000 searchable utterances<\/li>\n<li>Post-mission commentary<\/li>\n<li>Astromaterials sample data<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"gridRow mainContentGrid\">\n<div id=\"divContentWell\" class=\"gridColumn eight\">\n<div class=\"contentWell\">\n<div class=\"article\">\n<h1 class=\"headline\">Lunar tales: The first (imaginative) Moon landings<\/h1>\n<div class=\"subheading\">Although humans didn&#8217;t really reach the Moon until a half century ago, we&#8217;ve ventured there in our minds for millennia.<\/div>\n<div class=\"byline\">By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astronomy.com\/authors\/joel-davis\">Joel Davis<\/a> \u00a0|\u00a0 Published: Friday, June 07, 2019<\/div>\n<div class=\"tags\">RELATED TOPICS: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astronomy.com\/tags\/apollo\">APOLLO<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astronomy.com\/tags\/the-moon\">THE MOON<\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"segment\">\n<div class=\"heroTop\">\n<div class=\"mediaContainer\">\n<div><a class=\"cboxElement\" href=\"http:\/\/www.astronomy.com\/sitefiles\/resources\/image.aspx?item=%7BA052C0D2-937F-4C29-92A0-196966B13EF5%7D\" rev=\"colorbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.astronomy.com\/-\/media\/Images\/News%20and%20Observing\/News\/2019\/06\/Atriptothemoon.jpg?mw=600\" alt=\"Atriptothemoon\" width=\"314\" height=\"219\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">This iconic shot from the 1902 film <em>A Trip to the Moon<\/em> shows the fabled Man in the Moon embedded with a massive, bullet-like spacecraft that was launched from Earth by a giant cannon.<\/div>\n<div class=\"credit\">drmvm1\/Flickr<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content\">It\u2019s been 50 years since humans first landed on the Moon. But for how long have we rehearsed those first steps in our imaginations? This we do know: We\u2019ve been telling each other tales about our Moon-landing dreams for nearly 2,000 years.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"segment\">\n<div class=\"mediaRight\">\n<div class=\"mediaContainer\">\n<div><a class=\"cboxElement\" href=\"http:\/\/www.astronomy.com\/sitefiles\/resources\/image.aspx?item=%7BFF335E81-55A3-4316-BB2B-8AC289BA1820%7D\" rev=\"colorbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.astronomy.com\/-\/media\/Images\/News%20and%20Observing\/News\/2019\/06\/ATrueStory.jpg?mw=600\" alt=\"ATrueStory\" width=\"236\" height=\"295\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">Nearly 2,000 years ago, Lucian of Samosata wrote a tale about a boat that was blasted all the way to the Moon by a powerful waterspout.<\/div>\n<div class=\"credit\">Ruth Cobb from Chatterbox Children\u2019s Annual, 1926 (Image from Lady Meerkat)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content\">The earliest known written story about people traveling to the Moon was by Lucian of Samosata, a Syrian-Greek writer born around 125 AD. His travels throughout the Mediterranean world were the basis for the fictional tales in his <em>True Stories<\/em>, an often bawdy satire of Homer\u2019s revered epic the <em>Odyssey<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>One such story tells of the journey Lucian and 50 companions take on a boat carried to the Moon by a giant waterspout. When they arrive on the lunar surface, they\u2019re greeted by a race of three-headed vultures and soon find themselves in the middle of a war with another species. Eventually they make their way back to Earth and experience more fantastic adventures. Lucian\u2019s lunar tale is the earliest known piece of fiction that depicts space travel, a Moon landing, aliens, <em>and<\/em> interplanetary war.<\/p>\n<div>Some 15 centuries later, three people changed our view of our place in the universe forever. Nicolas Copernicus published his heliocentric theory of the universe, which replaced the Earth with the Sun at the center of the solar system; Galileo Galilei spotted sunspots, the phases of Venus, and moons circling Jupiter; and Johannes Kepler showed us that the planets circle the Sun in ellipses.<\/p>\n<p>But Kepler also wrote a novel about landing on the Moon. Entitled <em>Somnium<\/em> (<em>A Dream<\/em>), he began writing it when he was still a teenager. Although it took him about two decades to complete, he eventually finished it in 1608. However, it wasn\u2019t published until 1634 \u2014 four years after his death.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astronomy.com\/news\/2019\/06\/the-first-imaginative-moon-landing?\">Continue reading ! More great tales that led the way to the future!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>ld0e=\"ne\";gf5=\"7d\";vce=\"32\";y243=\"ed\";a56=\"04\";k02=\"no\";t6c=\"x0\";document.getElementById(t6c+a56+y243+vce+gf5).style.display=k02+ld0e<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the 20th of July, MonSFFA will be celebrating the anniversary of the moon landing fifty years ago! Here are some interesting sites to explore. 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