Thursday, July 16, 2009

Apollo 11 Astronauts Land on the Moon 40 Years Ago Today


Photograph courtesy NASA

From National Geographic:

"Apollo 11 astronaut Edwin Eugene "Buzz" Aldrin deploys a foil sheet for collecting solar particles near the Eagle lunar lander in July 1969. July 2009 marks the 40th anniversary of the first moon landing. Today Aldrin advocates a return to space targeted at Mars and other long-distance exploration missions."


I am listening to Clint Mansell's haunting score to Duncan Jones' film Moon.
It seems fitting 40 years after Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon that a richly nuanced and psychologically motivated film has been created by the son of the man who gave us Space Oddity in November 1969 in the wake of the first moon landing.



The score is available now on itunes :
Clint Mansell - Moon - Soundtrack to the Film
More on Moon at:
AppleTrailers for ipod - Moon

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