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Here's what it took to get three astronauts back home. A Spacecraft Like No One Had Ever Seen Space Frontiers//Getty Images Illustration of the Eagle lander. The Apollo 11 mission was a triumph for the Saturn V, which stands to this day as the most powerful rocket mankind has ever co...
The Apollo program was the name of NASA's project to land humans on themoonin the 1960s and early 1970s. With the success of Apollo 11 in 1969, which put astronauts on the lunar surface for the first time in history, the U.S. was able to declare victory in the space race against ...
Earth view from Apollo 11. Credit: NASA Just how did the Earth—our home and the place where life as we know it evolved—come to be created in the first place? In some fiery furnace atop a great mountain? On some divine forge with the hammer of the gods shaping it out of pure ethe...
See how the historic first manned moon landing worked in this SPACE.com infographic about Apollo 11.
↑ Sources of information for the chart: Shuttle launch [PDF], Indy 500 cornering (p.36), Dragster , Jet pilot, Apollo lunar module impact with ocean after return to Earth [via the Wayback Machine], NASA Ames 20g centrifuge. ↑ A typical car contains about 1 ton of steel. The The ...
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This was a distant goal that would give engineers plenty of time to figure out how to get there, and at the end of the day would be a non-aggressive yet unparalleled demonstration of the nation’s technological superiority. Apollo 11: JFK’s Secret Space Tapes On May 25, 1961, after ...
The megastructure could produce 1,000 times more energy than the Large Hadron Collider, allowing scientists to “rewind” the clock and study the origins of the cosmos.