In the 1960s, experts drew on the best science of the time to show how humans might live and work in lunar style.
NASA capsule flies over Apollo landing sites, heads home NASA’s Orion capsule is on its way home from the moon to wrap up a three-week test flight. The capsule and its test dummies came within 80 miles of the far side of the moon Monday. December 6, 2022 NASA capsule on way to...
Nasa is due to retire its space shuttles next year and replace them with the Orion spacecraft, an Apollo-like capsule that would launch on a new rocket called Ares 1. Another rocket, Ares V, would have thecapability9to launch heavypayloads(有效负载)- service andcargo10modules11- that woul...
had the contracts to build the Apollo command capsule and service module in Downey, the advanced liquid hydrogen engines in Canoga Park and the ultra-lightweight Saturn V second-stage rocket in Seal Beach. Douglas Aircraft was building the third stage in Huntington Beach. Many of those facilities...
Since 2005, collectSPACE has attempted to locate the current whereabouts of all the Apollo 11 lunar sample displays. The following chart details those efforts. Special gratitude is extended to former NASA Office of Inspector General special agent Joseph Gutheinz, who today as a professor at the Uni...
Washington (AFP) Aug 27, 2012 - Coming upon the Apollo 11 capsule at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum on Monday, Matt Hehman did something that would have been unimaginable when Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon 33 years ago.
The Columbia capsule, which took Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins on a nearly million-mile journey to the moon and back, is the centerpiece of the upcoming Destination Moon: The Apollo 11 Mission tour of four museums across the country to coincide with the 50th anniversary of ...
—mostly women—used slightly modified caulk guns to fill each cell with the resin, and they came to be called “gunners.” The work was considered so critical, and also so delicate, that each gunner trained for two weeks before being allowed to work on the heat shield for a capsule....
"Columbia," the Apollo 11 command module that flew Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins to and from the moon in July 1969, will spend the 50th anniversary of its mission at The Museum of Flight in Seattle. The capsule is the star of the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition...
Gemini programs, which set up for the Apollo program, were attractive, and the space program seemed like a promotion. The other 20% would rather fly and test new airplanes for the Air Force rather than getting “locked up in a capsule and shot off like a round of ammunition,” Collins ...