If Moon Landing Happened in Today’s World…

a look at media coverage of the first moon landing if it happened today…

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NASA Releases Newly Restored Videos on Anniversary of First Moon Walk

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Incredible Photo of Shuttle Silhouette as Passes the Sun

From NASA’s “Image of the Day” gallery

Transiting the Sun

In this tightly cropped image, the NASA space shuttle Atlantis is seen in silhouette during solar transit, Tuesday, May 12, 2009, from Florida. This image was made before Atlantis and the crew of STS-125 had grappled the Hubble Space Telescope.

The phtographer made this image using a solar-filtered Takahashi 5-inch refracting telescope and a Canon 5D Mark II digital camera.

Image Credit: NASA/Thierry Legault

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Now Docking at Space Station Colbert

Oops: Colbert wins space station name contest- msnbc.com

Comedian Stephen Colbert won NASA’s online contest to name a new room at the international space station.   After urging viewers of his Comedy Central show to submit his name to NASA’s write-in coontest, Colbert beat out NASA’s four suggested names by amassing 230,539 votes.

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