Google is celebrating the 50th anniversary of NASA's Apollo 11 moon landing with an epic doodle today (July 19), narrated by one of the astronauts who was there.
Apollo lunar surface landing and roving hardware; Unmanned lunar surface landing sites (e.g., Surveyor robotic landing sites) and impact sites, such as those of NASA's Ranger spacecraft, as well as the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) that slammed into the moon in Octo...
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A look at memorable songs that have rocketed up the chart, in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.
Any moon-landing conspiracy theorist who sees director Todd Douglas Miller’s mesmerizing documentary “Apollo 11,” which captures the 1969 lunar adventure of astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong, will feel put on blast. Miller’s digital restoration of never-before-seen NASA footage marries ...
Google map (not SNUS) with balloon, chase car and on-board landing prediction 3D visualisation of the view from the payload Raw data screen Trackers The current plan is for flight to carry 3 trackers: Pi tracker with wide-angle camera sending telemetry and monochrome (of course!) SSDV (869...
View PDFView articleView in ScopusGoogle Scholar Snyder et al., 1996 G.A. Snyder, C.M. Hall, D.-C. Lee, L.A. Taylor, A.N. Halliday Earliest high-Ti volcanism on the Moon: 40Ar 39Ar, Sm Nd, and Rb Sr isotopic studies of Group D basalts from the Apollo 11 landing site Meteor...
On June 20, 1969, Aldrin became the second man to walk on the moon as he became the lunar module pilot of Apollo 11. He followed the mission commander Neil Armstrong. The historic landing gathered the largest television audience. They spent 21 hours on moonwalk and returned with 46 pounds ...
To address questions about the multiple lunar nearside–farside dichotomies and to provide new insights into both the early impact history of the Solar System and the geological evolution of the Moon, the Chang’e-6 (CE-6) landing zone has been selected to lie within the lunar farside South...
It goes without saying that NASA's historic launch of the Apollo 11 moon landing mission 45 years ago today changed the face of humanity, and nowhere does that resonate more than in orbit, where astronauts live and work on the largest manmade structure off planet Earth: the International Spac...