• Its name has ties to strawberry picking season, and when Thursday’s strawberry moon appears above the horizon, the marginal supermoon will look large and gold.
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• Before he became an astrophysicist, Ray Jayawardhana was just a kid, looking up at the night sky with his father. “I remember being awed,” he says. He’s written a book called Child of the Universe.
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• The first successful lunar orbit happened fifty years ago on December 21st 1968. The Apollo 8 mission led to one of history’s most iconic images.
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• Renewed interest in exploring and mining the moon have space archaeologists and historians wanting to preserve those Apollo landing sites. Non-profit For All Moonkind says the first step is to map those sites.
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• SpaceX is planning to send two private citizens to the moon launching from Florida’s Space Coast.
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• Cape Canaveral-based Moon Express is the first private space company to receive permission to head the moon.
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• The plan to send humans to Mars may have a lunar detour – that’s if a House appropriation committee bill makes it through Congress.
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