On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the moon. Forty years later, a variety of museums, space centers and other institutions are marking the anniversary with events, exhibits, concerts and lectures. Here are a few details on some of the bigger activities and venues. Check with your local science museum for other events and exhibits about space exploration. NASA also has a link to anniversary events from its Web site at www.nasa.gov/.
NEW YORK, Sept. 19, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- WHO: U.S. Congressman Tom Price (GA), Chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee; Alan Dershowitz, Harvard Professor and Best-Selling Author; and Shelby Steele, Hoover Institution Fellow and National Humanities Medal recipient will participate in a media conference call hosted by Hudson Institute President Ken Weinstein.
Forty years ago, human beings took their first steps on an extraterrestrial world in an event that captivated a nation and made people everywhere believe that anything is possible. Just a few months after he was inaugurated in 1961, President John F. Kennedy told a joint session of Congress that he would direct federal resources to put a man on the moon within a decade. Some thought the president was overreaching while others embraced his bold prediction.
By Steven G. Vegh The Virginian-Pilot
Late on the evening of July 20, 1969, Susan J. Clements sat in her pajamas on a bench in the dining hall at Camp Seven Hills in Holland and watched the grainy footage on TV. Ernst Both, then an astronomer at the Buffalo Science Museum, was in Ocean City, N.J., watching the broadcast at a neighbor's house because his vacation home didn't have telephone or television service.
John Bolton, Dore Gold, Elie Wiesel, Alan Dershowitz, Jon Voight & Mike Huckabee and Others to be Available for Media Comment about U.N. Breaking News at New York City's Millennium UN Plaza Hotel NEW YORK, Sept. 21, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Hudson Institute, a nonpartisan research institute, and the Touro College Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust, will host a daylong "counter conference" on Thursday, September 22, 2011, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Millennium UN Plaza Hotel.
Robert L. Russel, whose 20-year tenure as El Paso County's district attorney launched the careers of powerful attorneys, charmed juries and pioneered new approaches to justice in the Pikes Peak Region, has died at the age of 82. He was pronounced dead at 11:40 a.m. Wednesday at St. Francis Select Care in Colorado Springs.
An unidentified Arizona woman was killed in a single car accident at 2:56 p.m. today when her Mercury Grand Marquis rolled over on the eastbound Highway 40, 11 miles west of Needles, authorities said. She was an elderly woman, officials from the CHP Barstow office said. Her name was not available.
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