Remembering Mankind’s Giant Leap
It was the greatest engineering feat of all mankind: to place a live human being on Earth’s familiar satellite…the moon! Over 125 million viewers tuned in to watch this historic event, a record for its day. And this weekend, we mark the 36th anniversary of the first moon landing, Apollo 11, with astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.
Ask any schoolboy of the 1960s what he wanted to be when grew up and he would answer without question: a NASA astronaut. Most people don’t realize that the modern life we have with cell phones, microwave ovens, computers, and the Internet all started as government research programs. The unique gifts of these National Aeronautics and Space Administration projects would be shared with us all. And for most of those technological breakthroughs, NASA didn’t charge a dime. Engineers of the day did their job for pride and cosmic curiosity, not economic gain.
At Hammacher Schlemmer, we celebrate the anniversary of the first footprint on the moon and the selfless desire to explore, create and engineer. For the now-grown school boys and girls who, decades later, still dream of space, we have several unique gifts to satisfy their cosmic curiosity.
The personalized book of New York Time articles focuses on the history of space exploration throughout the years. Procured from the archives of The Times, it presents highlights of the “Space Race” from the first satellite, the Soviet’s Sputnik, and of course, the first moon landing. The bound book displays the recipient’s name and “The New York Times History of Space” stamped in gold on the blue leatherette cover.
Explore the moon from the comfort of your own backyard with this observatory-class telescope. It provides the same optical performance demanded by the world’s leading astronomical research institutions. Similar to the design used in NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, its advanced optical system eliminates aberrations to provide a flat, crisp field of view.
And for the ultimate unique gift for a space buff, this watch is constructed with a cross-section from a genuine nickel-iron meteorite that landed in the Gobi desert. The watch works as a precise lunar phase chronometer for either the northern or southern hemisphere, displaying the lunar cycle throughout an entire synodic month, so thoughts of the moon are always close at hand.
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