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TopicApollo 11

Topic: Apollo 11

From Luna 9 to Chandrayaan-3 — tracing humankind’s tryst with lunar missions

Sandhya Ramesh -
Apollo 11 marked 1st crewed moon landing, while Luna 16 brought back lunar soil to Earth before Chandrayaan-3 became first to safely land near lunar South Pole.

As we await Chandrayaan-2 landing, here’s how Vikram Sarabhai hailed Apollo-11 fifty yrs ago

Urvish Kothari -
It was not just the sheer scale or the grandeur of the Apollo-11 mission that fascinated Vikram Sarabhai.

Apollo 11 made us believe we could do anything – that will be our downfall

Eric Olson -
Spectacular successes breed complacency. The moon landings reinforced belief that technology will always be able to solve our problems.

50 years of Apollo 11 moon mission – how desperately the world needed it

Stephen L. Carter -
The Apollo 11 mission was the true first impression of man to set foot on another celestial body, as the television flashed “Armstrong on the moon!”

The Eagle has landed — How Neil Armstrong & Edwin Aldrin escaped death to reach Moon

Sandhya Ramesh -
Landing on Moon for the first time in history was dotted with several life threatening situations for the two astronauts.

Human history on the moon needs protection, 50 years after Armstrong left his footprints

Faye Flam -
Remains of Apollo 11 site will tell a story that should inspire people when we reach the 500th or 1,000th anniversary of those first footprints.

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Opinion

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

Gitanjali Das -
When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

What India can learn from the US-Israel war on Iran

Communism is based on self-deluding assumptions, it can’t be realised in practice: GN Lawande

Economy

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

Katharine Gemmell -
President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Defence

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

Vaibhav Pant -
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

National Interest

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Shekhar Gupta -
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.

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