Farouk El-Baz: From Egypt's Deserts to the Moon and Back
El-Baz plans to highlight the issues of sustainable development and self-preservation at the Arab Environment 2009 conference in Beirut, Lebanon this November
El-Baz plans to highlight the issues of sustainable development and self-preservation at the Arab Environment 2009 conference in Beirut, Lebanon this November
Dean Garfield | Posted 09.13.2009 | Technology
It is time to marshal industry and scientific innovation to advance our key terrestrial priorities. The deep cultural divisions of the 1960s are largely behind us, but challenges remain.
Michael Winship | Posted 09.06.2009 | Green
One of the most valuable contributions of our exploration of the skies has been the knowledge gained from being able to examine our own earthly neighborhood from the distance of space.
William Bradley | Posted 08.21.2009 | Entertainment
Though Goldfinger looks almost sedate compared to today's jittery, mashed-up action pictures, editor Peter Hunt's work 45 years ago, emphasizing fast hard cuts, was an innovation.
Beverly Wettenstein | Posted 08.20.2009 | Media
My mission is to give the women's history perspective to today's news events.
Posted 08.20.2009 | Style
The following is from Life.com's collection of photographs from Ralph Morse, a photographer who had access to the Apollo crew members at home with the...
Bill Chameides | Posted 08.20.2009 | Green
Today is the 40th anniversary of the first lunar walk, and, not counting the late Michael Jackson, it's been almost that long since the last moonwalk. Is it time to do it again?
Jeff Gralnick | Posted 08.20.2009 | Media
We'd managed, somehow, to turn the grand adventure of space exploration into a monstrously expensive giant yawn, which when you think about it is a helluva trick.
Kimberly Krautter | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics
To fail to continue to send people into space to actually learn about those environments and how they relate to our own sustainability would be to become even more self-absorbed than we already are.
Larry Page | Posted 08.20.2009 | Business
We believe the time is ripe for private industry to assist in creating a new era of sustainable, international lunar exploration -- a "Moon 2.0."
Huffington Post | Katherine Goldstein | Posted 08.20.2009 | Green
Monday is the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11's moon landing. Astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong were the first men to ever walk on the moon -- a...
Susanna Speier | Posted 08.18.2009 | Politics
In honor of the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11's moon landing, individuals with NASA affiliations that range from astronaut to intern condensed the seminal event into 17 syllable historiographies.
Dan Dubno | Posted 08.18.2009 | Media
As we mourn "the most trusted man in America" we also mourn the kind of television news that no longer exists. Today, the job he perfected has largely lost its relevance.
Popular Science | Posted 08.15.2009 | Green
* The toughest moonwalk task? Planting the flag. NASA's studies suggested that the lunar soil was soft, but Armstrong and Aldrin found the surface to ...
Eric Lurio | Posted 08.15.2009 | World
Tomorrow is the anniversary of Apollo 11's landing on our Moon. In another ten years, most of the people involved with it will be dead.
AP | MELISSA TRUJILLO | Posted 08.13.2009 | Media
BOSTON — Families crowded around black-and-white television sets in 1969 to watch Neil Armstrong take man's first steps on the moon. Now, they'...
Jeff Goldstein | Posted 07.30.2009 | Living
I have assembled an extensive list of resources and links to help you celebrate with friends and family, and follow the flight -- in real time -- as it happened 40 years ago.
Jeff Goldstein | Posted 07.20.2009 | Living
July 20th is coming. It will be the 40th anniversary of the first human footprints on another world, and I lived it.
Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 11.11.2009 | World