Preparation for Apollo came from NASA'sMercury program, which ran from 1959 to 1963 and sent one-person crews into orbit to see if humans could survive and work in space. That was followed by the agency'sGemini program, which ran from 1962 to 1966 and included two-person missions that te...
But this first was not the last for NASA. The United States would go on to complete six crewed missions to the moon that landed a total of 12 astronauts (all men) from 1969 to 1972 in a series of Apollo missions numbering up toApollo 17. The only mission that failed to reach the mo...
Light in a vacuum is generally held to travel at an absolute speed, but light traveling through any material can be slowed down. The amount that a material slows down light is called its refractive index. Light bends when coming into contact with particles, which results in a decrease in sp...
FROM APOLLO TO ARTEMIS: HOW ANGSA HELPS PREPARING FOR FUTURE SAMPLE MISSIONS TO THE MOON AND BEYONDGross, J.Zeigler, R. A.McCubbin, F. M.Shearer, C.LPI Contribution
In June of 1969, now with 19 manned missions and countless hours in simulators to its name, NASA was deep into final preparations to make its first lunar landing attempt with Apollo 11 and Nixon’s team began devising ways to parlay the mission into evidence of the President’s leadership....
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The four terrestrial (meaning ‘Earth-like’) planets of our inner Solar System: Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars. These images were taken by the Mariner 10, Apollo 17, and Viking missions. Credit: ESA The atmospheres of the rocky planets were formed as part of the very energetic building...
starving to death in their mother’s arms. The famine was mostly man-made as a result of an internal political struggle in the country, made worse by a two-year drought. Burke and his film crew followed Claire through days of dealing with babies so emaciated and ill, you could see every...
Thus, when NASA announced in 1969 that Apollo 11 had successfully landed on the moon, Kaysing was immediately skeptical. Central to his doubts was the Apollo 1 disaster of February 21, 1967, in which a fire on the launch pad resulted in the deaths of astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed While, an...
We leave after an amazing four years in Canada, enriched by discoveries and encounters, new friends and collaborators, projects and opportunities. Like the beautiful expanse of Canada itself, there are so many treasures of the Irish influence and impact here to be discovered and honored. We are...