Country 106.5 WYRK Radio » moon

Today Is Once In A Blue Moon

Dale Mussen — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 10:00:31 +0000

It’s a pretty rare event. It happens only once every three years or so. The last one was in December, 2009. The next one is in July, 2015. A full moon at 1:58 this afternoon becomes the second full moon this month. The second full moon in a month is called a blue moon. Why [...]

Full Moon Over Wyoming County [Photos]

Clay Moden — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:59:34 +0000

With the full moon on the rise on Saturday, I decided to share some of the amazing pictures I was able to take over my girlfriend’s family farm. The colors of the moon made for some perfect shots!It was so neat to actually see the moon rising. One of the best things I have witnessed [...]

Kennedy's Challenge To Land A Man On The Moon – Dale's Daily Data

Dale Mussen — Wed, 25 May 2011 10:00:40 +0000

With the Soviet Union having put the first man in space just a month before it became a personal goal of President John F. Kennedy to send an American to the moon by the end of the decade of the 1960’s. He made it a national priority and a mission he said all Americans would [...]

Dale's Daily Data: Supermoon

Dale Mussen — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 10:00:48 +0000

It has a technical name that’s way too hard to pronounce, but it’s come to be known as a "supermoon," It’s a natural event when the moon gets closer to the Earth than its average distance. It happens about six times a year. But tomorrow night the moon will make its closest approach to Earth in 18 years and about closest to Earth that it’ll ever get. And visually, it’ll be 14 percent larger than usual and 30 percent brighter.

Dale's Daily Data: First Liquid-Fueled Rocket

Dale Mussen — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 10:02:37 +0000

After reading Orson Welles’s science fiction novel “War of the Worlds” he became fascinated with the idea of space travel. When he was a college physics student he began building rockets powered by gunpowder and eventually as a college professor he mathematically proved it could be possible for rockets to travel in the vacuum of space.