The astronauts are going to land on the South Pole(南极) of the moon. They will be looking for ice and water there. Such a long walk will come with lots of difficulties. It takes longer to walk a mile on the moon
o you know that humans haven't walked on the moon surface since the Apollo17 mission in 1972? With NASA's Artemis missions, astronauts coul d soon be on the moon again-an d on Mars in the end. It's reported that in 2025, NAS A plans to begin A a base camp for astronauts, near...
Before concluding the mission’s third and final moonwalk, the astronauts offered epitaphs for the Apollo program. “This valley of history has seen mankind complete its first evolutionary steps into the universe,” said Schmitt, who later represented New Mexico in the U.S. Senate.“I think no...
In 1972, the Apollo 17 mission was NASA’s final visit to the Moon and is remembered for several records. The Apollo 17 astronauts wore OMEGA Speedmasters.
He was one of the few astronauts who served in combat during the Vietnam War, flying more than a hundred missions off the deck of the USS Ticonderoga, the same aircraft carrier that would recover him and his fellow astronauts after the splashdown of Apollo 17. Evans's astronaut career ...
"As the Challenger leaves the surface of the moon, we are conscious not of what we leave behind, but of what lies before us," read the statement from the White House, as was radioed by Mission Control in Houston to the Apollo 17 astronauts. "This may be the last time in this centur...
The astronauts were in training for AS-204, the first crewed test of the Apollo Command/Service Module. However, on Jan. 27, 1967, a fire on the launch pad claimed the lives of the three astronauts during a preflight test. NASA retroactively named the unflown mission Apollo 1, as the...
The end of the Apollo 17 mission was a bittersweet moment for its crew. It was highly successful, but it also marked the last moon missions for the foreseeable future. When the astronauts returned to their homes in Houston, families alongside them, the whole neighborhood came out to see the...
John F. Kennedy announced this goal in 1961, and it was accomplished on July 20, 1969 by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin during the Apollo 11 mission. Five other Apollo missions also landed astronauts on the Moon, the last one in 1972. These six Apollo spaceflights are the only times ...
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Half a century after U.S. astronauts brought it back from the moon’s surface, a minute piece of extraterrestrial rock has finally reached its intended destination, the east Mediterranean island nation of Cyprus.