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...
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Instead, it will take off from Boca Chica, Texas, at SpaceX's own spaceport, known as Starbase. Eventually, the company will launch the rocket from a site under construction in the outer perimeter of the famous Florida pad that shot Apollo 11 to the moon. ...
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. ...
Apollo 11’s Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the first humans to land on the Moon in 1969. NASA intends to return astronauts to the lunar body as soon as 2026 on the Artemis III mission. By Andrew Wulfeck Source FOX Weather Facebook Twitter Email Copy Link See what's new in the ...
From the late 1950s to the mid-1970s, the two superpowers were embroiled in a bitter competition over who could 'conquer' outer space first. Beginning with the launch of the first satellite and culminating with a joint mission between the two superpowers, the space race was a unique period...
The Apollo-Soyuz mission of 1975 saw Americans and Soviets meet in space during a lull in the Cold War. Skylab: The first American space station included a tricky set of spacewalks to repair Skylab after the facility was severely damaged during launch. Skylab hosted three crews and came down...
That optimism gradually faded as the key problems involved proved much more intractable than was originally thought. As late as 1968 one of the AI pioneers, John McCarthy, made a famous bet with chess-player David Levy that a computer would beat him within ten years. He lost the bet and ...
Yet, his bout with fame was unsettling. Gagarin took to drinking heavily, which concerned his superiors. Still, he trained for space, and was named a backup for the Soyuz 1 mission. Gagarin's good fortune held – the 1967 mission failed catastrophically when the landing module's parachute fa...
Apollo 13 was a mission that tested NASA and its astronauts to the hilt. It was the thirtheenth scheduled lunar space exploration mission, scheduled for liftoff at the thirtheenth minute after the thirteenth hour. It was supposed to travel to the Moon, and three astronauts would attempt a l...