Given all the talk about the Moon recently, you’d think there was a significant anniversary in the history of space exploration approaching.
You’d be correct, of course. The Apollo 11 mission launched on 16 July 1969 and its Eagle module landed on the Moon a few days later on 20 July, making 2019 the 50th anniversary of a human being setting a first foot on the moon.
With the recent report that NASA’s Curiosity Rover is sending back information regarding not just evidence of ancient lakes once having existed on Mars, I thought it might be a good time to point out that Ocean Worlds; The Story of Seas on Earth and Other Planets by Jan Zalasiewicz and Mark Williams is scheduled to be published by Oxford University Press this coming January.
As a child of the great days of the space program, I grew up with with visible proof that through diligent study, teamwork, insatiable curiosity and the willingness to dream bigger than anyone should think rational, human beings could accomplish amazing things. A man didn’t walk on the surface of the moon because he was […]