40th Lunar Exploration Celebration

Greetings Earthlings, Yes I am a little fascinated with all hype surrounding the 40th anniversary of the moon walk. It seems that the trekkie in me loves the thought of going where no one has gone before, with the handball season on hiatus I have found myself spending a lot of time looking at the online footage of the landing and browsing the NASA website. I do find it a little unbelievable that NASA deleted the original tapes of Armstrong & co walking on the moon, and had to enlist the aid of newsrooms to collect footage in order to have tape ready for the 40th anniversary celebrations - forget about history when you need to save money! And I am also mightily intrigued by the list of artifacts that the Lunar Legacy project wish to collect and preserve if they get the chance. I wonder if any of this will end up on E-bay? Coming back down to earth, many thanks to our obsessive reader for giving us a list of her recommended books, these will be appearing shortly on the blog, once I figure a way to link them to the blog.
Beam me up Scotty