From a San Diego ceremony honoring Batman to the Apollo 11 moon landing anniversary, “Sunday Morning” takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports. Source
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Nature: Full moon
“Sunday Morning” checks out a full moon setting over Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts. Videographer: Scot Miller. Source
Walter Cronkite and the awe of space exploration
Martha Teichner on the CBS News veteran’s coverage of an epochal human event: Man landing on the moon Source
To the Moon! Apollo 11’s great adventure
Jeffrey Kluger, editor-at-large at Time magazine, recounts the human landmark of landing men on the lunar surface. Kluger talks with Apollo 11 command module pilot Michael Collins and astronaut Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin and, in archive footage, hears from mission commander Neil Armstrong about the achievement of the first Moon landing, and of the “magnificent desolation” they found there. Source
Colson Whitehead on “The Nickel Boys” and exhuming tales of the dead
In his latest novel, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Underground Railroad” recounts stories from a notorious boys’ reform school where many went missing, or never left alive Source
Black models in modern art
A recent NYC exhibition, now at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, explores the importance of black models as key to the development of 19th and 20th century art Source
Almanac: Measuring tape
On July 14, 1868, Alvin Fellows patented his “new and useful improvement in spring measuring tapes” Source
Bowled over for breakfast
What happened when food blogger Wil Fulton tried an experiment of eating nothing but breakfast cereal for a week? And with egg sandwich sales increasing for breakfast, how are cereal makers trying to re-energize their brands? Source
50 years later, Apollo 11 remains a defining moment
“We did something really, really big. Nobody else had done it before… And it took a lot of courage.” Source
“Life-threatening” flooding threatens Louisiana as Barry moves inland
The storm flooded roads and knocked out power for tens of thousands Source