Thursday 16 July 2009

Fingers on the buzzers: the anniversary of Apollo 11's historic mission is marked with a space auction at Bonhams in New York starting at 1pm today. more in The Daily Telegraph
Also commemorating the moonwalk is an iPhone app and a finally released NASA film.
Cosmos & Culture: How Astronomy has Shaped Our World is at the Science Museum and features Thomas Harriot's 400-hundred-year-old lunar maps. Front Row discussion.
The town that put the men on the Moon on the box

The US space agency Nasa successfully launched the space shuttle Endeavour - at the sixth attempt.

This week's BBC Radio 3 Composer of the Week series highlights experimental sometime electronic British composer Jonathan Harvey. Some of the most fascinating new music you're ever likely to hear. Moving Trees in this ep: a short piece for chamber ensemble written in response to a commission from Belgian choreographer Anna Teresa de Keersmaeker.
Jeanette Winterson's The Inconstant Moon Omnibus (15 min x 10 eps) of artistic reflections on the moon.

and more lunacy in last week's posting below...

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