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On this date 38 years ago, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon. It still boggles my mind that some people still believe thew moon landings did not happen.

Here’s a picture of Neil during the first lunar excursion. If you look at the visor, you’ll see a reflection of the photographer, who was Buzz Aldrin, of course.

I do remember watching the moon landings on my family’s Zenith black-and-white television. Last year I set up a Facebook group for people who watched one of the six Apollo landings on television when it happened. For the youngsters, there’s always the “When I was your age, Pluto was a planet” group. Maybe I should I start a “Skylab sucked” Facebook group, because Skylab really did suck.

Space: NASA reports that a massive sunspot is now facing the Earth. It’s approximately 20 times larger than Earth, and visible to the naked eye - well, with the proper filters, of course.

If this sunspot starts throwing out flares, communications and satellites will be disrupted or destroyed. W plans to blame al Qaeda, and Halliburton will receive a trillion-dollar contract to block out the sun.

Tech: DSKY Simulator is a Javascript version of the Lunar Module’s main computer. Happy 35th anniversary, Apollo 11. NASA, where’s my damn skycar?

USA: NASA Ames Research Center - Ames News: “Lunar bases that can travel on wheels, or even legs, will increase landing zone safety, provide equipment redundancy and improve the odds of making key discoveries by enabling crews to visit many lunar sites”

Tech: Fortune.com:One key hurdle involves reducing the noise produced by a sonic boom. “Lured by what could be a multibillion-dollar market and goosed by money from the Pentagon and NASA, planemakers like Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and France’s Dassault are starting to get excited about designing a new generation of hot little jets that would warp the very fabric of space-time while meeting noise and environmental regulations. On a flight from London to Los Angeles - stopping in Teterboro, N.J., for fuel - a Mach 1.8 supersonic jet would save almost eight hours of travel time. ”