In the 28 July 2009 issue of Eos (90(30), 258), a date was incorrect in the news item entitled "Apollo 11 Mission Commemorated." NASA astronaut Eugene Cernan was referring to the 1970s, not the 1960s, in talking about his expectation of when humans would be back on the Moon. Eos ...
Apollo 11 Mission, Astronaut on Moon Surface, 1969 chromogenic print credit/notation stamp (in the margin); date in ink, stamped 'Space Coll. Apollo 11' and collection labels affixed (on the verso) image: 7¼ x 7¼in. (18.5 x 18.5cm.) sheet: 10 x 8in. (25.7 x 20.5cm...
As the dust settled on the moon’s Sea of Tranquility after the landing engine of the Apollo 11 Lunar Module shut down, Commander Neil Armstrong’s steely voice crackled over the radio at Mission Control, a quarter of a million miles away: "Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has la...
He said the first astronauts to walk on the moon in the Artemis program will only spend a few hours on the surface, much like Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin did during thepioneering Apollo 11 mission50 years ago this summer. "It would not be days," he said of the initial Artemis missio...
To date, New Shepard has flown more than 100 payloads to space across 11 flights. NS-17 Flight Manifest Highlights: NASA: Deorbit, Descent, and Landing (DDL) Sensor Demonstration Under a Tipping Point partnership with NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate, the NS-17 flight will further...
Apollo 11, U.S. spaceflight in which astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first people to walk on the Moon. Apollo 11 was the culmination of the Apollo program and a massive national commitment by the United States to beat the Soviet Unio
He became the first man to walk on the moon on July 21, 1969, during NASA's Apollo 11 space mission, and we learn how this flight of global importance was a trip of deeply personal significance. Landing a big success; The BIG release Magellan Aerospace has delivered the first of three ...
highest orbital altitude of the flight, a distance of about 870 miles (1,400.7 kilometers). The distance is the farthest from Earth humans have flown since NASA's Apollo 17 moon landing mission in 1972, and the highest Earth orbit by a crewed spacecraft since NASA's Gemini 11 mission in...
Putting the Pieces Together We recreated the Apollo 11 landing using the concepts and features mentioned here. This video serves as a good resource for designing a mission with a lunar landing. Using the resources outlined above, it is possible to create detailed lunar mission scenarios that encom...
In 2019, the sweet-treat retailer introduced its "Original Filled" doughnut timed with the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, the first moon landing. Two years later, Krispy Kreme offered a one-day-only "Mars Doughnut" to mark the landing of NASA's Perseverance rover on the Red Planet. Krispy...