Read about this curious business in Jim Clash's "Earth to Gary, " on page 140.

FORBES: Sidelines

This allows the log to be read by a laptop computer and displayed as a journey on Google Earth, the software giant's popular world-mapping software.

ECONOMIST: Monitor

Those of you who have seen the film Apollo 13 know the story - but on the site is a transcript of the mission where you can read the conversations between a crew in a crippled space craft and the guys on earth trying to get them home - it's absolutely fascinating.

BBC: Apollo Lunar Surface Journal

"In a nutshell, the plan in NASA's hands calls for catching an asteroid with a robotic spacecraft and towing it back toward Earth, where it would then be placed in a stable orbit around the moon, " read a statement from the office of Florida Sen.

CNN: Forget falling stars: NASA plans to catch an asteroid