Apollo 11

Her Majesty The Queen marked the 50th anniversary of the moon landings and the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings in a Christmas messsage which stressed reconciliation, and the beginning of great things from small steps.

ROME — Pope Francis gave a shout-out to the U.S. aerospace program on the 50th anniversary of the Apollo XI moon landing, calling the accomplishment a “great step for mankind.”

There are a number of movies and documentaries to remind us, not only of a better Hollywood, but of that time 50 years ago when America was its most American.

I’m no space nut. I was not one of those kids who built model rockets. But I do understand what the space program did for this country, not just for our national pride (which is important), but how the relentless push to achieve Kennedy’s radical challenge dramatically improved life here on Earth.

The Apollo 11 moon landing’s lessons – particularly the need for national industrial policy – are being lost, said retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Robert Spalding

The space program was not just about the guts and grit of astronauts with “the right stuff,” nor about the brilliance of the engineers who designed the spacecraft.  It was also about the financial and organizational ability of government leaders, corporate executives, and white- and blue-collar workers—all teaming up to get the job done. 

After its next planned astronaut moon landing, NASA’s Project Artemis intends to land astronauts on Mars, explained NASA Deputy Administrator James Morhard in a Friday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.

“Tomorrow will represent 50 years from the time we planted a beautiful American flag on the moon,” Trump said.

NASA chief Jim Bridenstine said the agency is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon mission with plans for a Mars landing.

The 2019 Golden Globe nominees have been announced and “First Man,” the film that omitted the United States flag being planted on the surface of the moon, is not on the list of nominees for Best Motion Picture.

Legendary astronaut Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin on Sunday evening tweeted photos of Apollo 11’s historic moon landing amid outrage over First Man director Damien Chazelle’s decision to exclude the American flag from being planted on the moon. 

Actor Ryan Gosling and his Oscar-winning La La Land director Damien Chazelle reteam in the first visuals from Universal’s sensational true telling of the Neil Armstrong-led Apollo 11 spaceflight in First Man.