which wasn't supposed to be turned on until the crew was close to landing on the moon. Haise and Lovell frantically worked to boot Aquarius up in less time than designed. Aquarius didn't have a heat shield to survive the drop back to Earth, so as Lovell and Haise got the lunar module...
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
Apollo, Moon-landing project conducted by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in the 1960s and ’70s. The project reached its goal with the July 1969 landing of Apollo 11 on the Moon.
President Kennedy set a lofty goal of putting a man on the moon before the end of the 1960s. This is the story of the Apollo Program leading up to the moon landing of Apollo 11. During the 1960s, the National Aerunautics and Space Administration (NASA) e
The article presents facts about the U.S. Apollo 11 space mission that landed on the moon in 1969. Drinking water on the spacecraft was a product of fuel cells, but the hydrogen filters did not work, which made the water bubbly. Pilot Neil Armstrong nearly ran out of gas while landing...
From the modest 2.5 hour "moonwalk" of Apollo 11 to the forays totaling just over 22 hours outside a spacecraft on Apollo 17, NASA's Apollo landing crews could not escape tracking lunar material inside their moon lander homes. [The Moon: 10 Surprising Facts] ...
The Apollo 11 Moon landing was an awe-inspiring moment in the history of the human race for some and an endless debate of conspiracy theories and
From the modest 2.5 hour "moonwalk" of Apollo 11 to the forays totaling just over 22 hours outside a spacecraft on Apollo 17, NASA's Apollo landing crews could not escape tracking lunar material inside their moon lander homes. [The Moon: 10 Surprising Facts] Decades later, moonwalkers and...
Learning practice- use what you know to answer questions about the failed missions and the moon landing mission that was successful for the first time Additional Learning For more on this program, feel free to review the lesson called Apollo Moon Mission Facts: Lesson for Kids. You'll be cove...
Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Moon Landing with an immersive AR app that places you right in the action of NASA’s daring space missions of the 1960s. The perfect companion to Smithsonian Channel’s landmark six-part series, the “Apollo’s Moon Shot AR” app gives you an out-of...