Tag Archive | "Apollo 11"

“The Eagle has landed”

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

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Darryl Cunningham‘s on a roll this week – his powerful and moving Psychiatric Tales got the Observer Graphic Novel of the Month at the weekend and, in what must have been quite a flurry of activity, he finished his new comics project exploring the many conspiracy theories that surround the Apollo lunar missions. Darryl picks [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Tintin first on the moon after all

Friday, July 24, 2009

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As a afterthought to the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11′s moon landing over the weekend, at last the Vatican’s daily newspaper Osservatore Romano has given credit where credit is due.  In an article in its weekend edition, it wrote that Neil Armstrong “was not the first human to tread on the surface of the moon,” [...]

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On this day…

Thursday, July 16, 2009

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On this day, forty years ago, human beings began the great odyssey to the Moon. The enormous engines on one of the largest craft ever built ignited and a huge Saturn V ascended into the skies on a blistering column of fire. Take a moment to just think about that. Its too easy now for [...]

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