50th Anniversary of Landing on the Moon

It was a trick bag when we landed on the Moon. As I think back I think a lot of the determination involved was driven by ghost of tragic John Kennedy. He willed it, and America determinedly followed through.

I listened via radio. I say it was bag mixed with confusion because there was combined great awe and pride - but there was even greater clarity in the view that Earth was in a Tangle. Same is true today, Funnily enough. The surface of the moon was icing on a cake, inside the cake were the flames of war in Asia and riots cities and starvation in Bangladesh and Vonnegut saying 'so it goes.'

Check this great Google Doodle out: Command Module Capt. Mike Collins testimony - in which he often sounds like poet Ferlinghetti - and even like Vonnegut for that matter - It's a journey to remoteness that peaks: "We came in peace for all mankind."  Later as they took a trip around the world, he recalls, people they met everywhere said 'we did it.'" Sign me up!  Praying: Tranquility Now. - Jack Vaughan

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Mission Patch Under Glass

“As a speaker he was all but limp –still it did not leave him unremarkable. Certainly the knowledge he was an astronaut restored his stature, yet even if he had been a junior executive accepting an award, Armstrong would have presented a quality which was arresting, for he was extraordinarily remote. He was simply not like other men…he was apparently in communion with some string in the universe others did not think to play.” – Norman Mailer, “Of a Fire on the Moon,” p. 22

Remembering visit to Cape Caneveral Rock Garden circa 2006.

I went to Cape Canaveral. Sap that I am I cried in the Rocket Garden. Hello Redstone - model that got the best of me! And Atlas. Saturn of Buzz, Neal and Mike. Rockets that told my trajectory.

Celebrating 50 years since the first Moon Cake Walk.


 A repeating theme of Moon Traveller Herald – to look at things as at the remove of the moon.
More links:
NYTimes special
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/07/18/science/apollo-11-moon-landing-photos-ul.html

Alternative Google Doodle uplink: 
https://youtu.be/uzbquKCqEQY

Cherished cocktail coaster memorial stamp emblazoned.