May 2, 2012 | 367 notes
The Biggest Supermoon in Years is Coming Saturday Night!
The moon will make its largest, most stunning appearance of the year—an event known to scientists as “the perigee-syzygy of the Earth-Moon-Sun system” and to the popular skywatching public simply as the “supermoon.”
Photo: (the supermoon of March 2011). NASA / Bill Ingalls
Ed note: Did you know that in the 50s and 60s it was thought that in the future newlyweds would honeymoon on the moon?
March 13, 2012 | 15 notes
Getting Up on the Moon Looks Like Fun
Charlie Duke drives a penetrometer into the soil and falls forward to the ground. It takes three attempts for him to get back up by doing press-ups to a kneeling position before standing.
February 21, 2012 | 3 notes
Just When You Thought Astronauts Couldn’t Get Any Cooler
Astronauts from Apollo 17 having a little fun on the moon.
Ed note: Check out our article on the famous vest worn by Gene Kranz as he averted tragedy during the Apollo 13 mission.
January 26, 2012 | 31 notes
Lunar Colonies of the Future (1969)
The May, 1969 issue of Science Journal features an article by Dr. Rodney Wendell Johnson about lunar colonies of the future. Dr. Johnson was the Advanced Planner for NASA’s Advanced Manned Mission Program Office.
Illustration by Roy G. Scarfo
Ed note: Check out more from Paleofuture at Smithsonian.com and also check out Paleofuture’s Tumblr featuring many more illustrations.
