What The Apollo 11 Astronauts Almost Forgot To Leave On The MoonNews Staff
What danger might the Apollo 8 astronauts face? A. Their engine might explode in the orbit. B. They wouldn't land on the moon successfully. C. They might have no chance to return to the earth. D. Their spaceship might catch fire in the returning journey. ...
July 21, they were back inside the Eagle with the hatch closed. They slept on the surface of the moon and began their journey back to planet Earth 12 hours later. Watch the full film "Apollo: Mission to the Moon" at NatGeoTV.com Back on Earth, the astronauts' families were a...
Matthew Ward is a senior lecturer in history at the University of Dundee in Scotland. He notes that the American flag is distinctively powerful and seems to be present in the imagery of almost every key event in American history, from Apollo moon landings to firefighters raising the flag over...
The Moon has a smell. It has no air, but it has a smell. Each pair of Apollo astronauts to land on the Moon tramped lots of Moon dust back into the lunar module—it was deep gray, fine-grained and extremely clingy—and when they unsnapped their helmets, Neil Armstrong...
Only two major failures marred the Apollo Program: the launchpad fire which killed the three Apollo 1 astronauts in 1967, and the midflight systems meltdown which nearly brought down Apollo 13 in 1970. Since the program ended in 1975, no humans have set foot on the moon, although several ...
quickly waned. Television coverage slacked. Missions—to conduct research, repair satellites, and build theInternational Space Station—failed to ignite popular imaginations the way a moon landing had. For many Americans, shuttle flights carried little of the bravado and romance of theApolloera. ...
After the Columbia disaster, pieces of Columbia space shuttle debris are seen stored in a hangar at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida during accident investigation in 2003. More than 82,000 pieces of debris from the Feb. 1, 2003 shuttle disaster, which killed seven astronauts, were ...
Aspirin-free Tylenolwas introduced in 1955 and the company now offers products for both adults and children. In 1982, Tylenol was the target of atampering casein the Chicago area that killed seven people when it was determined the product had been laced with cyanide. Johnson & Johnson’s respo...
In 1982, Tylenol was the target of a tampering case in the Chicago area that killed seven people when it was determined the product had been laced with cyanide. Johnson & Johnson’s response is considered the gold standard in handling such a crisis. The company put out mass warnings, ...