A Felt Tip Pen Helped Get Apollo 11’s Moonwalkers Back To Earth (Cool Weird Awesome 577)
A broken switch threatened to keep Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin from returning to Earth. Fortunately, they had a solution: office supplies.
After The Moon Landing Came The Astronaut Quarantine (Cool Weird Awesome 356)
Today in 1969 was the first day off for the Apollo 11 astronauts in more than a month. Yes, they'd finished their moon landing weeks earlier, but they had to go into quarantine in case they'd picked up some "moon germs" that could lead to a plague on Earth. (Fortunately, they hadn't.) Plus: there's a new augmented reality tour of a church in Florence, Italy that was deconstructed in 1784.
MLK and Uhura: Some Things For January 20, 2020
Let's get to it on this Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.