Today on Far Future Horizons we continue to commemorate the forty-sixth anniversary of the Apollo Moon landing with two retrospective documentaries presented by BBC veteran science journalist and science historian James Burke ten years after the event. James Burke, one of the main presenters of the BBC’s coverage of the Apollo 11 mission, reviews its … Read more
Today on Far Future Horizons we present a treasure from the CBS News Archives. On July 20th, 1969 CBS journalists Walter Cronkite and Bill Stout interviewed the two great Grand masters of Science Fiction. Arthur C Clarke and Robert A Heinlein (two of the “Big Three” of science fiction authors) were interviewed regarding their thoughts … Read more
Today on Far Future Horizons we join Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, the hosts of Discovery Channel’s hit television series “MythBusters”, in laying to rest the myth that the Apollo moon landings were a staged hoax. The MythBusters chose Marshall as one of several NASA locations for an episode to debunk the notion that NASA … Read more
This is an essay I wrote five years ago to mark the fortieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing and was originally posted on the National Space Society’s blog site on August 10, 2009. By far the two most remarkable photographs of the twentieth century are the ones shown above. For they encapsulate the whole … Read more