When I learned about the upcoming moon landing, I asked someone in a position of authority if it would be possible for me to order my own copy of The Times (which cost 10 cents) covering this piece of history and have the money debited from my candy account at the camp store.
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"Here I am speaking to the first man on the Moon and all I can think of asking him are his impressions of Cranfield University!"
They had been summoned by the endangered moon: I was certain of that.
It is part of the Swatch Group, it is the only watch to have been worn on the moon and I for one am not about to argue with 007 whose timing is never less than perfect.
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As we were leaving the museum through the Rose Center for Earth and Space, past stunning images of the Apollo astronauts working on the surface of the moon, I asked her, for the record, why she'd never felt the urge to visit before.
Before going to sleep each night, I pressed and held a button on the Up that illuminated a tiny moon on the band, indicating I was going to sleep.
At the time Newport-born McGoldrick, who was the youngest of Wales' nine-man boxing team at the Games in Dehli, said he was "a little disappointed" to lose the final but "I tried my best and I'm over the moon with silver".
George was way more over the moon about the equipment I purchased than the Haiti research.
I'm really over the moon and it's a massive win for us as a group.
"I think it's absolutely amazing and I'm completely over the moon with it, " said Angela Hancock from Winterbourne, one of Cossham's nearest living relatives, about the refit.
In the dark, under a starry sky and a waning moon, Todd and I drove up the side of Kimball Mountain, one of the last large peaks on the westernmost slope of the Rockies.
Layton and I had never been to the Blue Moon, but the idea of what and who might be inside became the basis of many of our fantasies as we floated on our backs.
"He was not a professionally trained astronomer and yet did professional quality work, particularly when it came to mapping the Moon in the 1950s - I think every astronomer in the world owes something to Patrick Moore, " said ex-BBC science correspondent and fellow astronomer Dr David Whitehouse .
"I think they will not be over the moon about the outcome, " he said.
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In the 95 degree heat, I felt like I was sleeping on a hot, hot moon-bounce.
Just right when I got into my foxhole, I could look out and see that old moon shining so very bright.
Standing in our front yard watching a half moon over the Western horizon, I remember wondering whether the crippled Apollo 13 Command Module would ever see splashdown.
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We mooned the moon and laughed ourselves hoarse, and I'm so incredibly grateful for every silly second.
When he walked out after recording "I Love You Because, " "Blue Moon of Kentucky", and "That's all Right, " he was days from becoming the first true rock star.
The lessons Neil, Buzz, and all the intrepid explorers who strapped on a rocket and raced to the moon, taught me have shaped who I am and inspired me to reach and learn.
Some would say a mosquito is worth one hundred trillion dollars (and if you were marooned alone on the moon, and suddenly a mosquito appeared, I believe that little guy would be worth all the galaxies in the universe, in terms of biological companionship).
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.
"The Blue Moon Saloon, " my brother Layton and I used to say while we floated in the creek, our noses pointed pompously upward, as if only gentry frequented the establishment, though in retrospect the opposite was more probable: these days, Divide was a town of holdout ranchers, fanatical fishermen, and the occasional Unabomber, not dandy fops with a mind for parlor games.
"I think the whole subject of the effects of going to the moon is something that gets overstated, " Chaiken says.
Mr. ROBERT GIBBS (White House Spokesman): As I understand it, professor Gates said he liked Red Stripe, and I believe Sergeant Crowley mentioned to the president that he liked Blue Moon.
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