http://www.irishcentral.com/topics/moon+landing IrishCentral moon landing en-us http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/periscope/the-view-from-ireland-when-neil-armstrong-landed-on-the-moon---a-moment-of-history-like-no-other-in-that-summer-of-1969-or-since--167467205.html http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/periscope/the-view-from-ireland-when-neil-armstrong-landed-on-the-moon---a-moment-of-history-like-no-other-in-that-summer-of-1969-or-since--167467205.html Sun, 26 Aug 2012 04:31:48 PDT
Neil ArmstrongI was sixteen years old in the summer of 1969, working my first summer job in an electrical plant about ten miles from my hometown of Drogheda on Ireland’s East CoastThe night and morning of the moon landing is impressioned on my brain forever Like 9/11 and the Kennedy assassination I can recall it as vividly as yesterdayMy family had gathered around our black and white television set to await the great moment READ MORE ]]> http://www.irishcentral.com/story/roots/the_irishamerican/remember-the-challenger-in-these-challenging-times-114970154.html http://www.irishcentral.com/story/roots/the_irishamerican/remember-the-challenger-in-these-challenging-times-114970154.html Mon, 31 Jan 2011 03:10:18 PST
“We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for the journey and waved goodbye and ‘slipped the surly bonds of earth’ to ‘touch the face of God’” – President Ronald Reagan speaking after The Challenger disaster and the loss of the seven crew members I have a photograph of the crew of the Challenger Christa McAuliffe’s mother, Grace Corrigan, sent it to me some years ago and it has stayed with me through several office moves READ MORE ]]>