Space Travel: Then and Now

Today marks the 40th Anniversary of the first lunar landing made by the crew of Apollo-11.

Here's a series of videos from Space.com commemorating this historic event:

http://www.space.com/common/media/show/player.php?show_id=36\

NASA of course is celebrating in style:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/40th/


I was 8 years-old when Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin touched down in the Sea of Tranquility.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11

This and the subsequent Apollo missions were big events for us grade-schoolers. The teacher would wheel-out the big black & white classroom TV and if timed right, we'd watch the lift-offs, landings and any other news items surrounding the missions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_program

It's been 40 years since those epic space flights. Today, the space shuttle Endeavour's crew conducted a spacewalk outside the International Space Station. Inside the space station, the crew dealt with a more "mundane" problem--fixing a back-up toilet:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090720/ap_on_sc/us_space_shuttle