There and Back Again: a Space Odyssey
Well, this post is not really chemistry-related, but I think it should probably be of interest for a broad audience, especially for everyone who likes dreaming when looking at a cloudless night sky… Nature News reports on Twitter the Apollo 11 mission as it happened, exactly 40 years ago – wish I was alive then… – following the mission’s crew travel to the moon and back, as well as technical and political challenges which came along with the space race. Here is the link, and here is an accompanying blog run by Nature reporters. Hope you’ll enjoy the links, and maybe one day I’ll post on the weird molecules that were detected in space – others than waste humans have been disseminating over the years of course!
Chemically speaking, I’ll attend next week the International Symposium on Macrocyclic & Supramolecular Chemistry in Maastricht, the Netherlands, where I hope to find inspiration both for researching and for blogging!