Happy Anniversary
Listen 00:06:1346 years ago – Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped onto the moon, while Michael Collins orbited overhead in the command spacecraft.
Summer Constellations are the story this week – Leo in the west at sunset, Hercules at the zenith, Pegasus in the east; Scorpius, Sagittarius across the southern horizon.
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