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Mr Duncan starts with a Stone Age astronomer who observed the phases of the moon, and marked them by carving notches on an eagle's bone.
ECONOMIST: Late for the date
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The Second Era, which saw Soviet cosmonauts and U.S. astronauts almost routinely venturing into space, was punctuated in 1969 when Neil Armstrong (who, in a sad irony, just passed at the age of 82) and Dr. Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to land on the Moon.
FORBES: Launching the Next Era in Space Travel and Exploration
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The place had all the glamour of the space age then, with its glassy offices and swooping pavilions, moon rovers and rocket ships.
NEWYORKER: The Martian Chroniclers
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Mr. Weiner, who was born in Baltimore and raised in Los Angeles from the age of 11, at first claims no great affection for the period between the waning of the Eisenhower era and the moon landing.
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