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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 8: From the Moon at Christmas, 50 years ago

A half-century ago, three American astronauts became the first humans to orbit the moon. On Christmas eve, during a global broadcast estimated to have been heard by a quarter of the Earth's population, the crew of Apollo 8 -- Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders -- read from the...

Posted by Michael Bates on December 25, 2018 11:30 PM

Gene Kranz: Obama "wrote the epitaph for manned space flight"

I saw an article today that made me aware of a missed opportunity. Yesterday was the 40th anniversary of the safe return to Earth of Apollo 13, and the Cosmosphere -- just a short four hours from Tulsa in Hutchinson, Kansas, and home to the mission's command module, Odyssey, hosted...

Posted by Michael Bates on April 18, 2010 2:02 PM