Sep 15, 2012 | News, Space, The New Nixon
Today, exactly three weeks after his death, the cremated remains of Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the moon, were laid to rest somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean by his family and the crewmen of the USS Philippine Sea. Given Mr. Armstrong’s dislike...
Aug 31, 2012 | News, Space, The New Nixon
At the beginning of this month, in the lists of celebrity birthdays online and in the newspaper, one would see that on the fifth, “astronaut Neil Armstrong is 82” – just as he had turned 81 the year before that, and so on, going back to 1969 when his...
Aug 13, 2012 | News, Space, The New Nixon
On August 13, 1969, President and Mrs. Nixon hosted a huge state dinner at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles to honor the Apollo 11 astronauts on their safe return to Earth. Over 50 members of Congress and representatives from 83 foreign nations attended the...
Aug 8, 2012 | News, Space, The New Nixon
In the July of 1969, President Nixon, along with the entire nation, watched as a promise made eight years earlier by President Kennedy—to put a man on the Moon—was finally fulfilled. This event captured the attention and imagination of the world as the United States...
Jul 20, 2012 | News, Space, The New Nixon
On July 20, 1969, President Nixon made a historic phone to the Apollo XI astronauts, just after they made the “giant leap for mankind.” Hello, Neil and Buzz. I’m talking to you by telephone from the Oval Room at the White House. And this certainly...
Nov 21, 2011 | News, Space, The New Nixon
President Nixon’s daughter Tricia Nixon Cox and her family visited with House Speaker John Boehner, and the four astronauts who pioneered space travel Wednesday. After the meeting in the Speaker’s office, former U.S. Senator John Glenn, the first American to orbit the...
