News tagged with apollo
X-ray named top achievement by British museum
Nov 04, 2009 |
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The X-ray was named the most important modern scientific achievement Wednesday in a poll conducted for Britain's Science Museum, beating Apollo spacecraft and DNA.
LRO Sees Apollo 14's Rocket Booster Impact Site
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Oct 08, 2009 |
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(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 ...
A Second Look at Apollo 11
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Oct 01, 2009 |
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A month after LROC's first image of the Apollo 11 landing site was acquired, LRO passed over again providing the LROC instrument a new view of the historic site. ...
School Kids Track LCROSS
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 21, 2009 |
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Using a colossal radio telescope in the Mojave Desert, school kids around the world are helping NASA track the LCROSS spacecraft as it heads for a crash landing on the Moon.
Apollo moon rocks lost in space? No, lost on Earth
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Sep 13, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Attention, countries of the world: Do you know where your moon rocks are?
Apollo 12 and Surveyor 3
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Sep 03, 2009 |
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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.
Indian satellite confirmed US moon landing: scientist
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Sep 02, 2009 |
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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.
Moon Rock Turns Out to be Fake
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Sep 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The Dutch national Rijksmuseum made an embarrassing announcement last week that one of its most loved possessions, a moon rock, is a fake -- just an old piece of petrified wood that's never ...
Taking space in stride: New analysis could lead to better lunar, Mars spacesuits (w/ Video)
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 13, 2009 |
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(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 ...
Exploring the Moon, Discovering Earth
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Jul 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Forty years ago, Apollo astronauts set out on a daring adventure to explore the Moon. They ended up discovering their own planet.
Google offers 'guided tour' of the moon
Jul 20, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Google Inc. is offering a more wide-ranging view of the Moon, 40 years after humans first landed there.
One small step in the search for moonwalk tapes
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Jul 20, 2009 |
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The world will get the first glimpse of what the historic Apollo 11 moonwalk really looked like thanks to the exceptional footage taken from Australian telescopes on 21 July (Australian time) 1969.
Historic 'moon issue' of Science freely available
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Jul 20, 2009 |
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The historic 30 January 1970 edition of the journal Science, featuring analysis of the first geological samples from the Moon, is now freely available to the public to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the first lunar ...
Apollo 11 astronauts look beyond moon, toward Mars
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Jul 20, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The astronauts who first landed on the moon aren't dwelling on their small lunar steps. Instead, two of them on Sunday urged mankind to take a giant leap to Mars.
40 years later, moon still giant leap for mankind
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Jul 19, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The measure of what humanity can accomplish is a size 9 1/2 bootprint. It belongs to Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon. It will stay on the moon for millions of years with nothing to wipe ...
