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the Moon
Today is the 3rd day of the 50th week, the 13th day of the 12th month, the 348th day of 2016, and:
- Ice Cream Day
- National Violin Day
- Pick a Pathologist Pal Day
ON THIS DAY: In 1294 Saint Celestine V resigned the papacy after only five months to return to his previous life as an ascetic hermit. In 1577 Sir Francis Drake set sail from Plymouth, England, on his round-the-world voyage. In 1642 Dutch navigator Abel Tasman arrived in present-day New Zealand. In 1769 Dartmouth College was founded by the Reverend Eleazar Wheelock, with a royal charter from King George III, on land donated by Royal governor John Wentworth in New Hampshire, US. In 1928 George Gershwin's An American in Paris was first performed. In 1958 a small bushy-tailed squirrel monkey named Gordo was fired into space in the nose cone of a Jupiter rocket -- after surviving more than 1,500 miles in the rocket a technical problem with the recovery gear meant a parachute failed to open and the nose-cone sank taking Gordo with it. In 1962 NASA launched Relay 1, the first active repeater communications satellite in orbit. In 1972 Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt begin the third and final extra-vehicular activity (EVA) or "Moonwalk" of Apollo 17 -- to date they are the last humans to set foot on the Moon.
Tonight the last super moon, the last full moon of 2016 rose. This December moon is called the “Cold Moon” for obvious reasons or the “Long Nights Moon” because it occurs near the winter solstice—the night with the least amount of daylight. In December, 2016, the winter solstice will occur on Wednesday, December 21 at 5:44 AM EST
And it has been 44 years since that last moon walk.
I remember back when we believed – whole heartedly and fervently – that the present was better than the past and the future was going to be even better. We thought the next step would be colonization of the Moon and then Mars and asteroids. By now? There would be entire families living in space and space flight would be routine….. And then somehow the story changed and the whole leap to the stars collapsed. You want to make America great again? We were explorers, we were scientists, we WERE the future. We knew the way. Give us back that dream….
Look at that moon tonight -- and remember
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