President Donald Trump's administrationrecently announced a new, aggressive timelineto return astronauts to the moon. On March 26, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence announced that the U.S. would aim to land humans on the moon within the next five years. According to NASA Administrator Jim Briden...
“This fortieth anniversary year of the moon landing will likely see many books published on the topic; Floca’s visually sublime picture book will rise above most. Clearly he has researched his subject thoroughly, as indicated by the opening timeline and diagram on one set of end pages, the ...
The fragile-looking lunar module was just tough enough to keep two astronauts alive and carry them to the surface of the moon. The top half of the vehicle had its own rocket engine, which was fired to lift the astronauts back into lunar orbit to rejoin the command module. At the time o...
From the front, this conformed to that worn by the Apollo 11 crew when sitting in front of a picture of the Moon for their publicity shots (Figure 13) and it is interesting to see that the TMG front cover was peeled back by pulling at the NASA logo on the right. (As noted already,...
One of the three who were in the Apollo 11 crew is still with us, still carrying the living memory of being on the Moon. That living memory is held now by 4 people out of the 12 who were there. In contemplating the same amount of time which has passed from Apollo 11 to 52 years...
If this explanation is the correct one it establishes a very useful timeline, namely that 61220- type soils, when kept within the first few centimeters of the surface, evolve into Group II soils within 30 or 7 m.y. under conditions prevailing at the lunar surface in very reeent times. (...
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
Learn about the Apollo space missions in the 1960s and ’70s in which humans were sent to the Moon for the first time.
Each window on the Cardington hangar has these corrugations. It would indeed appear to be the case that we see one of these windows in the Apollo 11 image of the Moon. That suggests we must be looking at a highly-detailed model of the Moon photographed in a studio setup. Where have we...
Based onNASA’s restored Apollo 11 Moonwalk video, when they got onto the moon, Nixon called to speak with them at least a half hour after Armstrong and Aldrin first stepped on the moon. The choice to speed up the timeline of events was likely for narrative effect. It would’ve been bo...