As sure as the sun comes up, the sun will go down, and the moon will rise over the horizon.
Apollo 17, the last manned expedition to the Moon, splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on Dec. 19, 1972.
In his version (From the Earth to the Moon, 1865, and its sequel, All Around the Moon, 1870), an aluminum craft launched from central Florida achieves a speed of 24, 500 miles per hour, circles the moon and splashes down in the Pacific.
President John F Kennedy's speech at Rice University in 1961, which laid down the gauntlet for a landing on the Moon, seemed a daunting challenge at the time, especially when the US had only sent Alan Shepard on a 20-minute sub-orbital flight.
We were into open country now, running straight up the coast about a mile from the ocean on a two-lane blacktop road across the dunes with no clouds in the sky and a full moon blazing down on the Pacific.
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Honour his example of service, accomplishment and modesty, and the next time you walk outside on a clear night and see the moon smiling down at you, think of Neil Armstrong and give him a wink.
It was only when the ash from the disintegrating moon rained down on their faces and breasts that they began to disperse.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon condemned the shooting down of the helicopter, saying in a statement that it was clearly marked as being a U.N. aircraft.
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It sounds like something out of a movie, but that's what it came down to as Apollo 11 sped back towards Earth after landing on the moon in 1969.
Richards is a guide with Understand Down Under, a company that runs the Moonwalk, a monthly, full moon, sunset to sunrise tour of Royal National Park.
Experts have estimated that the moon is a rich depository of the isotope with possible reserves that stretch meters down into the lunar soil that have been carried there by solar winds.
So, instead of spending three hours in a single restaurant, I continue to roam, nibbling at glimpses of the moon between the pachinko parlours, the click-clack of high-heels down an alleyway towards Kiyamachi, the way the couples still sit at decorous intervals along the riverbank, formal as courtiers, even if talking of that wild night in Waikiki.
Unlike the Transformers films, which like to slow things down to tell the viewer how Shia LaBeouf and his fictional parents are doing, the Dark of the Moon video game is focused squarely on the battle missions, which are jam-packed with non-stop action.
At one of the most critical negotiating sessions, involving key leaders, U.S. President Obama sat next to British Prime Minister Brown, with UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon a few seats down, and a number of other heads of government gathered in the room.
Outside the window of my hillside house, a full moon had set the whitewashed houses aglow and the unearthly light drew me out of my room and down to the coastal walkway for a dreamy ramble.
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