A lot of people will be looking at the moon this week as the 50th anniversary of the lunar landing gets closer.
On this date in 1969, Apollo 11 was launched and on the 20th it touched down on a dark spot on the right-hand side of the moon.
Chris Curwin of Astronomy By The Bay, in Saint John, says you can see the general area with binoculars or a telescope.
“At the centre, one called the Sea of Tranquility on the bottom left-hand corner you will this little bit of a protrusion sticking out into the large dark sea area and just above that is where the Apollo 11 mission landed,” stated Curwin.
NASA actually had Apollo rockets 18 through 20 built and ready to go but the political will was lacking after 1972 according to Curwin because the US had already won the space race with the Russians.
Curwin says “We have sent robotic missions to other worlds but we spent the last 50 years in low earth orbit and have not been able to unite the countries on a new cause, which I suspect will be Mars.”
