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Apollo 15 was the first flight to the moon that included a spacewalk. On our return trip to Earth, we needed to recover film canisters(胶卷盒) from the service module. Because it was a new activity, an incredible amount of preparation went into it.I evaluated the entire plan in terms of...
[1] While NASA went ahead with planning for Apollo, funding for the program was far from certain, particularly given Eisenhower's equivocal attitude to manned spaceflight.[2] President John F. Kennedy delivers a speech at Rice University on the subject of the American space program, September ...
"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...
C When the Apollo astronauts(宇航员) landed on the Moon in 1969, millions of people were rather sad. The person to blame for this was an artist named Chesley Bonestell. For many years, Bonestell had been creating beautifully detailed paintings of the Moon and planets.Viewers of his artwork ...
Fifty years after the Apollo 11 mission, people around the globe are once again reflecting on and celebrating the moon landing, the odds that were stacked against it and how it continues to influence spaceflight. Slideshow: How NASA's Apollo Astronauts Went to the Moon Get the Space.com Newsl...
He first went into orbit in the Gemini VIII mission -- and had to wrestle an out-of-control spacecraft back into a trajectory that would allow a safe return to Earth. To mark the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, we're rerunning this interview with Hansen, originally published last ...
"When we went last time, the goal was land a person on the moon and return them safely to Earth. And we did that," said Mark Kirasich, who oversees NASA's Orion program. "This time, it's a little bit different. It's about a sustainable, long-term, human space exploration program...
the Moon, the crew member who remained in lunar orbit used his Speedmaster during heat and flow convection experiments. When he returned to Earth, the Service Module Captain, who had taken his own Speedmaster along with his official kit, engraved his personal Speedmaster with the words “FLOWN ...
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