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Apollo 11 50th anniversary: Events near Tulsa

In addition to watching commemorations on television and online, Tulsans have several options nearby and within a day's drive for remembering the 50th anniversary of mankind's first steps on the moon. The 2019 Oklahoma Aviation and Space Trail links the Tulsa Air and Space Museum, the Oklahoma History Center in...

Posted by Michael Bates on July 15, 2019 11:49 PM

Apollo 11 50th anniversary: Video, audio, and documents from 1969 and today

For folks of my age and older, watching men walk on the moon for the first time was an unforgettable thrill. Happily, through the wonders of the internet, there are many ways you can relive that experience and share it with the Gen Xers and later generations that missed...

Posted by Michael Bates on July 13, 2019 9:32 PM

Apollo 11 -- forty years ago

I was five years old, but I got to stay up late to watch the moon walk. We were at my grandparents' house in Nowata. My grandpa sold and repaired TVs, radios, and appliances (Johnny's Electronics), so he had a color TV. (We wouldn't have one for a few years...

Posted by Michael Bates on July 20, 2009 9:38 PM

Oklahoma roundup 2009/07/16

Local links of interest: A bunch of new posts up on Choice Remarks, the blog of the Oklahoma school choice movement, including a story about a left-leaning civil rights organization labeling teachers' unions "implacable foes of reform" and a survey of 1200 likely Oklahoma voters, 83% of whom say they'd...

Posted by Michael Bates on July 16, 2009 11:05 PM

Apollo 11 40th anniversary on the web

Thursday is the 40th anniversary of the launch of Apollo 11. A website called WeChooseTheMoon.org will be streaming the mission as it happened 40 years before. You can even follow the sequence of events on Twitter -- @AP11_SPACECRAFT and @AP11_CAPCOM. I would love to watch and show my children some...

Posted by Michael Bates on July 13, 2009 1:13 AM