Tag Archive | "man on the moon"

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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Blue Moon – Oli Smith joins the TARDIS

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

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We all know Oli Smith for his comics creations, his fascinating (and often inventive) videos and the great public profile he’s given to the UK small press comics scene with his work with London Underground Comics. Now he’s joining the world of Doctor Who – the prologue for  his Doctor Who story, Blue Moon, went [...]

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A giant leap

Thursday, July 9, 2009

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Over on the Down The Tubes forum my fellow space geek John Freeman has been encouraging artists to send in work to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of human beings first walking on the Moon, as risky and dangerous a piece of exploration as any carried out in human history but which provided us with the [...]

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