A VIEW FROM THE MOON: First Footprints on the Moon — 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11Robert E. Strong July 20, 2019or untold generations, human beings had looked at the moon and wondered … What was it? Was it a God?...
A VIEW FROM THE MOON: SMART-Center Turns 25 — 50 Years Ago (Part 2)Robert E. Strong May 28, 2019Recap: In Part 1, we find my youthful 10-year-old self, 50 years my present-day junior, has been called to the...
A VIEW FROM THE MOON: SMART-Center Turns 25 — 50 Years Ago (Part 1)Robert E. Strong April 30, 2019n elementary school, I labored under the common misconception that persists with most youngsters unabated to this day. I thought...
A VIEW FROM THE MOON: Practice Makes Perfect — 50th Anniversary of Apollo 9Robert E. Strong March 18, 2019As the rocket blurred into the clouds, I watched the joyful exuberance of the hundreds of kids around me all...
A VIEW FROM THE MOON: Big Idea — The Fractional Gravity Experiment (Part 3)Robert E. Strong February 27, 2019(Editor’s note: In the last two weeks, we read about the Big Idea (Part 1) and Big Idea (Part 2)....
A VIEW FROM THE MOON: Big Idea — The Fractional Gravity Experiment (Part 2)Robert E. Strong February 19, 2019(Editor’s note: Last week we read about the Big Idea (Part 1). Today, Robert E. Strong recaps that article and...
A VIEW FROM THE MOON: Big Idea — The Fractional Gravity Experiment (Part 1)Robert E. Strong February 12, 2019It is always amazing to me how a single small event can alter trajectories that appear to be set firmly...
A VIEW FROM THE MOON: Total Lunar Eclipse — Sun, Earth, Moon SyzygyRobert E. Strong January 19, 2019Allow me to introduce you to one of my favorite words, a word that may be new to most of...
A VIEW FROM THE MOON: The Golden Anniversary of the Apollo 8 Earthrise ImageRobert E. Strong December 15, 2018For the vast majority of the human tenure on this planet, the surface of the Earth — or very near...
A VIEW FROM THE MOON: Why Can’t We See the Footprints on the Moon (Part II)Robert E. Strong November 24, 2018In our last installment, Where Are the Footprints on the Moon?: Part I, we discussed that because the Earth’s moon...
A VIEW FROM THE MOON: An IntroductionRobert E. Strong October 16, 2018Years ago, nearly 46 to be more exact, I was a freshman in high school. I was 14 1/2 years old,...