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Vintage aircraft above Earth, Carl Sagan surrounded by the cosmos, and a futuristic starship travelling through deep space.

Around the Cosmos

Published 2026-09-28

What happens when going around the world is no longer enough? On 28 September 1924, two Douglas World Cruisers returned to Seattle and completed the first aerial circumnavigation of the globe. The US Army Air Service expedition had begun on 6 April and lasted 175 days, covering roughly 27,550 miles. Four aircraft had set out; […]

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Keith Moon playing drums on the lunar surface with the Earth visible in the distance.

Moon on the Moon

Published 2026-08-23

On 23 August 1946, Keith Moon was born in Wembley. Twenty years later, on 23 August 1966, NASA’s Lunar Orbiter 1 took the first photograph of Earth from the vicinity of the Moon. So, on Keith Moon’s twentieth birthday, a camera at the Moon turned around and looked back at Earth. Moon on the Moon. […]

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