In all, about 1200 people churned out 3000 pages of reports. The final report, to paraphrase the Bard, was "full of sound and fury..." To complete the phrase, the report did not "signify nothing," but it omitted the major factor in the fire. Apollo 1 was undergoing a test with an...
Apollo 13 is famously described as a "successful failure". Learn more about the mission here. Comments (1) When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The crewmembers of the Apollo 13 mission step aboard the USS Iwo Jima, af...
However, the cost of $20.4 billion was in terms of 1970’s dollars. Corrected for inflation, the Apollo program’s total cost comes to about $109 billion in today’s money. Considering that 11 manned Apollo missions were flown, the cost per manned mission comes out at $9.9 billion per m...
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Join us as we head into the universe to discover ten fascinating facts about the Moon… 10 facts about the Moon 1) The Moon is a dusty ball of rock, measuring 3,476km in diameter –that’s roughly a quarter of the size of Earth. 2) Its surface is home to mountains, huge craters...
The iconic Blue Marble image of the earth was taken with a hand-held Hasselblad camera by a Nasa astronaut on the Apollo 17 mission to the moon in December 1972. In this, the most famous and most often reproduced photo of our planet, the continent of Africa dominates. Africa is our ...
This bundle contains 11 ready-to-use Buzz Aldrin worksheets that are perfect for students who want to learn more about astronaut Buzz Aldrin who was the second man to set foot on the moon. In 1969 at the height of Cold War between U.S and Soviet Union, he was part of the Apollo 11...
The crew members of Apollo 10 discovered that the makeup of feces combined with the diet of astronauts rendered itbouncy and pong-like. At one point during the mission, feces was loosed from its container due to its sponginess, causing a stir among the astronauts. ...
On that fateful day — which was the same day that Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong died — the probe saw a 1,000-fold drop in these particles and a 9% increase in galactic cosmic rays that come from outside the solar system. At that point, Voyager 1 was 11.25 billion miles (18.11...