Learn more at NASA'sApollo 11 mission overview page. Find images, video and podcasts about Apollo 11 on NASA'sApollo 11 mission page. Check out theApollo 11 Image Galleryfrom the NASA history office. This article was updated on May 9, 2019 by Space.com contributor Elizabeth Howell. Join o...
The goal of the Apollo Program was to land men on the Moon and return them safely to Earth. This goal was achieved in the Apollo 11 mission, with two astronauts stepping onto the lunar soil on July 20,1969. A number of similar missions for further exploration of the Moon are planned....
The extent to which plants can enhance human life support on other worlds depends on the ability of plants to thrive in extraterrestrial environments using in-situ resources. Using samples from Apollo 11, 12, and 17, we show that the terrestrial plant Ar
In 1968, NASA's Apollo 8 mission carried the first crew beyond low Earth orbit and toward the moon, an important turning point in humanity's exploration of space.
From this very brief overview of a setup that must have taken some years in the pre-planning we have a photographer who is also an outstanding film director located near to studios over which he has total control while being heavily 'assisted' by NASA and US government staff. At the very...
Fig. 1. Deployment of the seismometer during the Apollo 11 mission (AS11-40-5951 courtesy of NASA). Sign in to download full-size image Fig. 2. Front side of the Moon showing locations of the four Apollo lunar seismic stations that operated simultaneously. Distances between stations A12, A...
Late one night in January 1971, a 9-year-oldAugust Ragonesat in the dark living room of his childhood home on Alabama Street in theMission District, transfixed by the man on the tiny black-and-white television screen glowing in front of him. ...
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1.1. Apollo 17 mission NASA’s early lunar exploration culminated in the sixth manned landing of Apollo 17. The mission was launched on December 7, 1972 and touched down on the lunar surface on December 11, before returning safely to Earth eight days after (Fig. 1). Download: Download high...
Station 2 is located 7.4 km southwest of the LM, at the foot of the South Massif where it intersects the southeast rim of the Nansen-Apollo depression (see Figure 11). With an elevation of −2,447.3 m it is the highest of all geology stations of the mission and also the most distan...