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
Bridenstine said this timeline will allow for a Mars landing by 2033. The new moon push, which has been dubbed the Artemis program, is also meant to be longer-lived than the Apollo program. "This time, when we go to the moon, we're going to stay," Bridenstine said at NASA ...
Michael Collins was a U.S. astronaut who was the command module pilot of Apollo 11, the first crewed lunar landing mission. Collins circled the Moon in Columbia, while Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin landed in the lunar module Eagle. Learn more about Col
“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. ...
So much so, that I had concluded that “clothes do not maketh the Moon Man”. Then, during Apollo 11's 50th anniversary I noticed that the Apollo spacesuit was presented to the public inaccurately in both words and images. Although this inaccuracy is partly due to the fact that across ...
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. (...
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...
As the dust settled on the moon’s Sea of Tranquility after the landing engine of the Apollo 11 Lunar Module shut down, Commander Neil Armstrong’s steely voice crackled over the radio at Mission Control, a quarter of a million miles away: "Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has la...
The 50th anniversary of the first human landing on the moon would be a fine occasion to kick off a serious effort to put astronauts on Mars, Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin says.