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updated: Jul 27 2021, 09:29 ist David R. Scott was not about to pass by an interesting rock without stopping. It was July 31, 1971, and he and James B. Irwin, his fellow Apollo 15 astronaut, were the first people to drive on the moon. After a six-hour inaugural jaunt in the new lunar rover, the two were heading back to their lander, the Falcon, when Scott made an unscheduled pit stop. West of a crater called Rhysling, Scott scrambled out of the rover and quickly picked up a black lava rock, full of holes formed by escaping gas. Scott and Irwin had been trained in geology and knew the specimen...

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The Northern New Jersey chapter of Skål International brought awareness to the Garden State by holding a tourism networking event at the USGA Museum in Far Hills on June 19. The Northern New Jersey chapter of Skål International brought awareness to the Garden State by holding a tourism networking event at the USGA Museum in Far Hills on June 19. Members from eight Skål clubs attended as did many of the state’s top travel, tourism and hospitality leaders. The keynote speaker was Grace Hanlon, executive director, New Jersey Division of Travel and Tourism. Hanlon referenced the state’s n...

Oh, i love it! i love it! >> o'donnell: funk's can-do attitude has been her north star. once told she would never walk again after a skiing accident, she went n to get ore pilot's license at 17. in the 1960s, she was the youngest member of the mercury 13, a group of 13 women who proved they had the right stuff. not only did they endure the same grueling exams that tested the mettle of men like john glenn and alan shepherd, but in some cases surpassed them. >> x-raying all your body, every bone every tooth. i had to drink radioactive water. >> o'donnell: today, funk beat glenn's record by five ...

Fifty-two years ago tonight, the world sat transfixed, staring at a fuzzy black-and-white TV image of Neil Armstrong setting foot on the moon. If you’re trying to measure the pace and scale of human progress, consider this: It took 66 years from the Wright Brothers’ first 12-second flight over the sands of Kitty Hawk to setting down on another celestial body. The question is where we will be 66 years after the landing of Apollo 11 — the pace of exploration has clearly leveled off, but might soon spike again. Right now, we can’t get back there. We might in a few years, howe...