Planetology: MoonLunar powder samples returned by Apollo 11 are remarkably similar in their optical properties to those measured for an area of several square kilometers surrounding Tranquillity base, suggesting a ubiquitous covering of the same material in the region. However, there are minor ...
Apollo 11 Mission Control Commentary of the First Lunar Landing and First Moon Walk, comprising two mimeographed transcripts of the taped exchanges between the Command ModuleColumbia, the Lunar moduleEagleand NASA's Mission Control Centre, Houston, the first dated 20 July 1969 with commentary timed ...
Back in 2002, interns Thad Roberts and Tiffany Fowler worked in the building where NASA stores most of the moon rocks it has. They took a 600-pound safe containing about 100 grams of moon samples and some other materials. With some help, Roberts tried to fence them to an amateur rock co...
The Apollo 11 astronauts returned valuable rock samples from the Sea of Tranquility landing site that revealed the moon's fiery past for the first time. The samples showed that this region of the moon was once the site of volcanic activity, and that thin flows of lava had once flowed where...
Documents the analysis of the samples at the Lunar Receiving Laboratory at the Johnson Space Center in Texas Illustrated with numerous previously unpublished photographs on the topic Explains the contribution of 'moon rock' analysis to our understanding of the origin and geological history of the Moon...
first things Neil Armstrong did after his descent down the ladder was to pocket a specimen as the original collected piece of the Moon. The missions that followed Apollo 11 were far more aggressive, returning a wide variety of Moon rock samples, effectively opening a window into lunar geology....
Apollo 17 closed out the moon program, with the three astronauts returning to Earth on Dec. 19, 1972. It was one of 270 such lunar samples brought back from moon missions in 1969 and 1972 that the Nixon administration gave as gifts to foreign countries. But the item vanished as ...
rock samples and set up scientific experiments. Armstrong and Aldrin left behind on the surface of the Moon a plaque mounted on the lunar module descent stage with an inscription reading, “Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon, July 1969 A.D. We came in peace for...
Apollo 11, U.S. spaceflight in which astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first people to walk on the Moon. Apollo 11 was the culmination of the Apollo program and a massive national commitment by the United States to beat the Soviet Unio
When the Apollo 11 astronauts returned to Earth after their historic moon landing, they brought back lunar samples for scientists to study. In light of the 50th anniversary of the first lunar landing, which occurs Saturday, NASA has released rare footage