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Apollo Astronauts Left American Flags, Boots and Even Poop on the Moon. Here's Why These Artifacts Matter
During the Apollo 15 mission in 1971, astronauts David Scott and James Irwin decided to test a centuries-old proposition about gravity from the Italian mathematician Galileo Galilei.
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The Apollo Missions
Dave Scott, Al Worden and Jim Irwin were the crew of Apollo 15, the first mission to use the four-wheel-drive lunar rover. John Young, Ken Mattingly and Charlie Duke of Apollo 16 and Gene Cernan ...
Odysseus spacecraft attempts to land on moon 50 years after Apollo missions: What we know
Godspeed, Odysseus! The six-legged robotic spacecraft could become the first American vehicle to land on the moon since ...
NASA’s new Prada-designed space suit looks like an Apollo dupe, but it’s so much more
It’s a color combo that is similar to NASA’s suits from the 1970s, when the designers at Collins Aerospace created suits for ...
10 NASA’s greatest achievements
NASA's most remarkable achievements include launching Explorer 1 in 1958, the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing, and the Hubble ...
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Unseen Apollo
The Apollo IX mission test-flew the command module and ... as captured by the Apollo 15 crew. Like the volcano fields on the Hawaiian island Hilo, some regions of the moon have preserved the ...
Apollo To Blue Ghost: How Commercial Space Conquers The Final Frontier
Firefly’s Blue Ghost marks a new era in commercial space, proving private industry’s role in space exploration and ...
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Water mining on the moon may be easier than expected, India's Chandrayaan-3 lander finds
Higher latitudes on the moon with slopes facing the poles "are not only scientifically interesting but also pose less ...