[FPSPACE] Remember that incredible Moon map from National Geographic in 1969?

[Keith Gottschalk]

I've carefully kept my NGS Moon map from 1969.
In Moscow, in the Korolov House Museum, there is a two metre geological map
of the Moon, hanging on one wall, as best as Moon geology was understood in
the 1960s.

- Keith


On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 12:41 AM, LARRY KLAES <ljk4 at msn.com> wrote:

> Just before the United States landed the first men on the Moon with
> Apollo 11, National Geographic came out with one of their excellent
> magazine articles on the upcoming adventure and included a map of
> the near and far sides of Earth's natural satellite with lots of other
> lunar details.
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> In case anyone remembers The Mary Tyler Moore Show of the 1970s,
> the NG Moon Map was prominenly displayed behind Lou Grant (played
> by Ed Asner) in his office.
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> It is hardly too much to say that the NG Moon Map is a true work of art.
> This past summer the blog Kelso's Corner had a two-part interview with
> the man most responsible for the famous map, Richard Furno, which you
> can get to from this link:
>
> http://kelsocartography.com/blog/?p=2737
>
> One interesting tidbit among many I learned from the two-part interview
> is that the first Mercury spacecraft to be test-launched in 1959 had to
> be taken to the pad on a borrowed truck on top of a matress!  Yes, there
> is a photo of this event.
>
> Enjoy,
>
> Larry
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