Jul 23, 2014 | News, Space, The New Nixon
This month marks the anniversaries of two of the greatest events of President Nixon’s first administration. 43 years before this July 15th, President Nixon announced his intention to visit China – a dramatic beginning of one of the most important diplomatic ventures...
Jul 16, 2014 | News, Space, The New Nixon
Apollo XI aims skyward into the realm of heavens, July 16 1969. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mt9znatmyQ] Apollo 11 Launch Following the successful Translunar Injection of Apollo 11 as it exited Earth’s orbit, President Nixon released a proclamation...
Aug 16, 2013 | Communism, News, Soviet Union, Space, The New Nixon
By Marshall Garvey When the history of the U.S. space program is recounted, most people tend to give the lion’s share of credit for its success to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. After all, it was Kennedy who promised to put a man on the moon by the...
Jun 11, 2013 | Nixon TV, Space
[youtube https://youtu.be/PDfxXZfvBDs] June 11, 2013: The second man on the moon and author of “Mission to Mars: My Vision for Space Exploration.”
Dec 24, 2012 | News, Space, The New Nixon
Four decades ago this month, at about 12:40 AM EST on December 14, 1972, that Capt. Eugene Cernan, USN, lifted his foot up from the airless, age-old surface of the moon, and boarded Apollo 17’s lunar module. Thus it was that humankind said farewell to hands-on...
Dec 7, 2012 | News, Space, The New Nixon
US News & World Report is reporting that the Alaska Transportation Museum has reclaimed a display of moon rocks that went missing after an arson fire in 1973. These moon rocks served as a central part of the international celebration when the Apollo XI astronauts...
