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Space Travel: The Past and the Future
Forty years ago today, Buzz Aldrin became the second man to walk on the Moon. Was that the outer limit of human capacity? Should we let robots take it from there or should we humans try to reach Mars? We talk with Buzz Aldrin and others. Also, tensions rise in Afghanistan, and I.F. Stone, who blogged before there was an Internet.
By Warren Olney • • 50m ListenForty years ago today, Buzz Aldrin became the second man to walk on the Moon. Was that the outer limit of human capacity? Should we let robots take it from there or should we humans try to reach Mars? We talk with Buzz Aldrin and others. Also, tensions rise in Afghanistan, and I.F. Stone, once accused as a Russian spy, later celebrated as Washington's premier investigative journalist.
Banner image: Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin on the moon
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3 storiesTensions in Afghanistan: Rising Death Toll, US Hostage Video
Four US soldiers reportedly have been killed in a roadside bomb blast in eastern Afghanistan, today. Over the weekend, various websites received video of PFC Bowe Bergdahl , an American soldier captured earlier in Afghanistan. Larry Goodson is Professor of Middle East Studies at the US Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
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Forty years ago today, humans accomplished a goal as old as the species when two men walked on the Moon . We talk with Moonwalker Number Two about the Moon itself and the depression and alcoholism he faced on returning to Earth. Buzz Aldrin is among those who say the Moon itself is a dead end, but that humans could get to Mars before 2050.
Read the story35 minI.F. Stone, American Radical
In the 1960's, I.F. Stone's Weekly was must-reading in Washington, a one-man operation that often scooped the Washington Post and New York Times. The author and publisher had been a popular New York journalist during the Depression, who was effectively blacklisted during the McCarthy Era as an accused Russian spy. D.D.
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