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.
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 ...
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NASA's most remarkable achievements include launching Explorer 1 in 1958, the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing, and the Hubble ...
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 ...
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