Monday, April 27, 2020

“Good Night, Moon”

The waxing crescent

3.7 day old moon

14.9 percent lit

April 21, 2020
By Mike Watt

Moonwalker Buzz Aldrin  (click here) is leveraging his famous Apollo 11 quarantine experience of five decades ago to help society deal with the coronavirus pandemic, which has much of the world under a stay-at-home order.

Aldrin and Apollo 11 crewmates Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins endured a three-week quarantine inside a modified Airstream trailer after their historic moon mission ended in July 1969, to ensure that they didn't spread any potential "space germs" to the rest of us here on Earth....