It was 36 years ago today...

...that Neil Amstrong uttered the first words from the surface of another world. I can just remember it, watching the flickery black and white images on the TV at home: I was *almost* 6. I can dimly remember Apollo 8 - talking about it with my grandfather, and for some reason having the name Jim Lovell imprinted on my memory as a hero: more so after the events of Apollo 13.

And there are people - far too many people - in my friends list who weren't born the last time a man walked on the moon. Let's face it, you only have to be 19 for the Challenger disaster to be outside your lifetime.

To commemorate, Google have come up with Google Moon - do zoom ALL the way in :) Missing from there, of course, is Apollo 13.

New job, anyone

http://www.google.com/jobs/lunar_apply.html

From budlite

( I have no words... )

Nuts

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/TV/07/20/obit.doohan.ap/index.html

RIP, Scotty. Guess someone else'll have to work the miracles now.