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Michael Collins Fast Facts Personal Death date: April 28, 2021 Birth place: Rome, Italy Mother: Virginia (Stewart) Collins Children: Michael, Ann and Kathleen Education: United States Military Academy at West Point, B.S., 1952; Harvard University, Advanced Management Program, 1974 Military Service: US Air Force, 1952-1970, Major General Other Facts Collins completed two space flights during his career, logging 266 hours in space – 1 hour and 27 minutes of this was spacewalking. Said he believes that extraterrestrials do exist, telling the New York Daily News in 1999: “It seems to me the h...

An adventure launched out of Durango has orbited the moon and returned to earth, landing at its "point of origin." The "Moon Trees" are back. This outer space odyssey begins and ends in Colorado. There are a lot of miles to cover, so you have to stay with the story. Get our free mobile app What's a "Moon Tree"? Let's get right to the point. Moon Trees, according to Wikipedia, "... are trees grown from 500 seeds taken into orbit around the Moon by Stuart Roosa, the Command Module Pilot on the Apollo 14 mission in 1971." What does this have to do with Durango, Colorado?

A New Search Has Begun For Moon Trees, The Glorious Legacy of Apollo 14 JACINTA BOWLER & SCIENCEALERT STAFF 22 APRIL 2021 Update (22 April 2021): Since we first wrote about the Moon Trees, interest in these wonderful living relics of the Apollo era has renewed. Now, the Royal Astronomical Society and the UK Space Agency have begun a quest to search for these trees across Britain. According to a recent BBC Radio 4 program, around 15 of these trees were planted in the UK. However, any records of how the seeds may have arrived in the country are nowhere to be found.   "Space has a wonderful ...

Informationweek Commentary Building Confidence with Data Resilience As enterprises grow more complex, the need to protect them intensifies. Have the confidence to understand potential weaknesses in your infrastructure and take a data-centric approach to resiliency. Ken Mattingly knows about resilience. Fifty-one years ago, this month, the young astronaut was cut from making a trip to the moon just days before lift-off. Not unlike the way in which COVID-19 has cancelled events and sidelined individuals, Mattingly, who was to be the Command Module Pilot on Apollo 13, had been exposed to Germa...

NASA Fifty years ago today, on January 31, 1971, at 4:03 pm EST, a Saturn V rocket lifted off from Pad A of Launch Complex 39 at the Kennedy Space Center carrying Apollo 14 – the Moon mission that would make or break the US space program. If Apollo 14 is remembered at all by most people, it's mainly as the answer to trivia questions like, who was the oldest man to walk on the Moon, or what is the longest lunar golf drive? But it was far more than that. Arguably, it was one of the most important of all the Apollo lunar landing missions, with the possible exception of Apollo 11.