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Taking space in stride: New analysis could lead to better lunar, Mars spacesuits (w/ Video)

Aug 13, 2009 | 5 / 5 (3) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Anyone who has watched videos of the Apollo astronauts moving across the surface of the moon has noticed the unusual loping gait they sometimes adopted and their slow, almost graceful, movements. Now a new ...

Apollo astronaut Aldrin urges US to land on Mars

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Jun 19, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (11) | 13

NASA should focus on sending a man to Mars and helping other nations travel in space, Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin said Friday.

Fake Astronaut Gets Hit by Artificial Solar Flare

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Jun 04, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (3) | 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- In 1972, Apollo astronauts narrowly escaped a potential catastrophe. On August 2nd of that year, a large and angry sunspot appeared and began to erupt, over and over again for more than a ...

Four Out of Six Apollos

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Dec 24, 2008 | 4.5 / 5 (6) | 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Their names are now part of exploration history - Sea of Tranquility, Ocean of Storms, Frau Mauro, Hadley Rille, Descartes and Taurus-Littrow. They are the sites on the lunar surface visited ...

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Google offers 'guided tour' of the moon

Technology / Internet

Jul 20, 2009 | 3.7 / 5 (3) | 1

(AP) -- Google Inc. is offering a more wide-ranging view of the Moon, 40 years after humans first landed there.

Chandrayaan-1 starts observations of the Moon

Indian satellite confirmed US moon landing: scientist

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Sep 02, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (26) | 76

India's first lunar mission has captured images of the landing site of the Apollo 15 craft, debunking theories that the US mission was a hoax, the country's state-run space agency said Wednesday.

Where were you when Apollo 11 landed? Not born yet

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Jul 19, 2009 | 5 / 5 (3) | 1

(AP) -- Most Americans have never known a world where man hasn't been to the moon. It used to be a given that people knew where they were when man first walked on the moon on July 20, 1969, watching the black-and-white ...

LRO Sees Apollo 14's Rocket Booster Impact Site

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Oct 08, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (6) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- A distinctive crater about 35 meters (115 feet) in diameter was formed when the Apollo 14 Saturn IVB (upper stage) was intentionally impacted into the moon. The energy of the impact created ...

Apollo 12 and Surveyor 3

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Sep 03, 2009 | 4.4 / 5 (8) | 2

Four months after the success of Apollo 11, NASA launched Apollo 12 in November 1969. Almost exactly 40 years later, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has seen the landing site.

Astronaut Wally Schirra dies at 84

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

May 04, 2007 | 4.7 / 5 (3) | 0

Wally Schirra, the only astronaut to fly in the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs, has died at 84 in La Jolla, Calif.

Beyond Apollo: Moon Tech Takes a Giant Leap

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Apr 09, 2009 | 3.9 / 5 (13) | 12

The flight computer onboard the Lunar Excursion Module, which landed on the Moon during the Apollo program, had a whopping 4 kilobytes of RAM and a 74 KB "hard drive." In places, the craft's outer skin was ...

Space Station Room With a View

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Jun 29, 2009 | 5 / 5 (9) | 3

The crew of the International Space Station (ISS) is about to get a new "eye-pod." The Tranquility node headed for the space station early in 2010 will feature a viewing dome unlike any other window ever flown ...

LROC's first look at the Apollo landing sites

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Jul 17, 2009 | 4.9 / 5 (9) | 4

The imaging system on board NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) recently had its first of many opportunities to photograph the Apollo landing sites. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) imaged ...