In the 1960s and 1970s, 12 men landed and walked on the moon. See how all of NASA's Apollo missions happened in this photo tour.
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
Lunar fines from the Apollo 11 and 12 missions have been analyzed for amino acids and a wide range of other derivatizable organic compounds by a highly sensitive gas-liquid chromatographic method. A minimum of 3 to 5 p.p.b. of each amino acid would have been detected, but there were no...
The Apollo program was an American human spaceflight program carried out by NASA, which succeeded in landing the first humans on the Moon from 1969 to 1972. There have been 17 Apollo missions in total. Which of the Apollos is your favorite on-screen mission?
Only 18 people have flown on missions to the moon. Here are the astronauts of NASA's Apollo manned journeys to the lunar surface.
Aldrin turned the camera around to photograph Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong. An out-of-this-world selfie NASA Twelve men — all American — explored the lunar surface over the course of four years and six successful missions. See if you can spot the photographer in this photo of astronau...
11 Aft pitch engines 12 Crew compartmentheat shield 13 Aft heat shield References W. David Compton, Where No Man Has Gone Before: A History of Apollo Lunar Exploration Missions, NASA SP-4214. 1989. Courtney G. Brooks, James M. Grimwood and Loyd S. Swenson Jr., Chariots for Apollo: A ...
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Luna 15, launched only three days before the historic Apollo 11 mission to the Moon, was the second Soviet attempt to recover and bring lunar soil back to Earth. In a race to reach the Moon and return to Earth, the parallel missions of Luna 15 and Apollo 11 were, in some ways, the...
Moreover, pressure due to the Cold War with the Soviet Union and the resulting ‘space race’ forced them to fake the Apollo lunar missions. The numerous anomalies and inconsistencies in NASA’s photographic record are so obvious that it appears that insiders were ‘blowing the whistle’ on ...