The beginning of the space age in 1957 saw early attempts to place a man-made object on the surface of the Moon, which succeeded in September 1959. Soft landers provided the first hard information on the lunar surface in the years 1966 –1968 to be followed by six manned landings in the...
Apollo in the distant past Represented the dawn Next stop The Moon There it is beautiful The treasure of the ages One small step There it is Wow Men on the moon Men on the moon The lunar age has begun We came in peace We came in peace for all mankind ...
Americans were preoccupied with other developments like NASA, thegame-changingspace programme that put Neil Armstrong on the moon. Yet it was astronauts like Eugene Cernan who paved the uneven, perilous path to lunar exploration. A test pilot who lived to court danger, he was recrui......
As the first national space agency (航天局) to put a man on the moon, NASA is respected all over the world for its pioneering (开创性的) lunar missions (使命). Many people wonder if NASA will ever send men to the moon again. After all, it hasn't done so since 1972. But it seem...
lunar exploration. A test pilot who lived to court danger, he was recruited along with 14 other men in a secretive process that saw them become the closest of friends and adversaries. In this intensely competitive environment, Cernan was one of only three men who was sent twice to the moon...
Mere weeks before Apollo 11 landed on the moon, thePopular Mechanicsstaff imaged what humanity's first day on the moon would look like. As part ofApollo Weekwe're republishing the our 1969 account of the lunar landing. It will happen any day now. In what history will record as the dram...
They landed on the moon in a lunar landing craft. After landing, the lunar craft took them safely back to the mother ship which was serving as an orbiting space platform. A permanent base on the moon and further exploration of other planets can be expected. In fact, there seems to be ...
Still, Musk, the CEO and lead designer ofSpaceX(which he founded in 2002), said he expected the United States to have a base on the moon by now, and to have sent people to Mars. But no astronaut has set foot on the lunar surface since 1972, and the extent of Mars exploration to...
【题目】As the first natonal space agency to put a man on the moon, NASA is respected all over theword foris pioneering lunar missions(使命), Many people wonder f NASA will ever send men tothe moon again. After ll,it hasn't done since 1972. Butit seems that NASA has not forgotten ...
The explosion meant that the astronauts would no longer be able to land on the Moon. Instead, the goal was simply to get back to Earth alive. The crew used the lunar module as a lifeboat. By now, Apollo 13 had drawn the world’s attention, Millions of people watched television on1...