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Shortly before the Apollo 11 mission, perched on its massive Saturn rocket, thundered off from Cape Kennedy to accomplish its historic manned landing on the Moon in July 1969, there was a singular encounter you don't often hear about. A protest group of some 300 members of the Poor People's...
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John Sarkissian of Parkes Observatory, Australia has reported that the recordings of the first TV pictures of Apollo eleven's landing on the moon have gone missing.
700 boxes of high quality slow-scan TV (SSTV) tapes were kept at the U.S. National Archives. The good news is that they still have...
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Previously unpublished NASA space mission images will go on show to the UK public this summer. The collection of official large format NASA photographs built up by UK collector Leslie Cantwell, covers missions from Apollo 7 to Apollo 17 . The Proud Galleries in Camden, London will exhibit the image...
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Much like the story of the shepherds and wise men during the first Christmas, people around the world had their attention turned toward the heavens on Dec. 24, 1968, when the Apollo 8 crew delivered its famous Christmas Eve broadcast from lunar orbit.
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Apollo 12
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Events to mark the 30th anniversary of the Apollo-Soyuz space project open in the National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C., Today. "Thirty years ago in July, a new era of international cooperation began when the world's two space powers shook hands in space" - National Ai...
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Emulation of the onboard Apollo guidance computers, along with some ancillary items needed to make the emulation do something interesting. "AGC" stands for Apollo Guidance Computer. The AGC was the principal onboard computer for NASA's Apollo missions, including all of the lunar...
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Apollo 11 landing site
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On July 21, 1969, after landing in the Moon's Sea of Tranquility, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin planted an American flag and spent almost three hours exploring the lunar terrain. The Moon's airless, inert surface should preserve their footprints and equipment for millions o...
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Apollo 7
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Apollo 7 was the first manned mission in the Apollo program to be launched. It was an eleven-day Earth-orbital mission, the first manned launch of the Saturn IB launch vehicle, and the first three-man American space mission. Read more
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LRO Sees Apollo 14's Rocket Booster Impact Site A distinctive crater about 35 metres in diameter was formed when the Apollo 14 Saturn IVB (upper stage) was intentionally impacted into the moon. The energy of the impact created small tremors that were measured by the seismometer placed on the Moon by...
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Moon landing anniversary
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BBC2 to celebrate moon landing anniversary The moon landings season will include James May on the Moon, in which the Top Gear presenter trains for three days with the United States Air Force before travelling to the edge of space in a U2 spy plane. A two-part documentary, NASA - Triumph And Tragedy, ex...
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In the Shadow of the Moon (10) Click to Play | View Details "In the Shadow of the Moon" is a 2006 British documentary film about the United States' manned missions to the moon. It premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the World Cinema Audience Award. It follows the manned...
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Apollo 10
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Apollo 10 was launched on May 18, 1969, 16:49:00 UTC. Apollo 10 was the fourth manned mission in the American Apollo space program. It was an F type mission - its purpose was to be a "dry run" for the Apollo 11 mission, testing all of the procedures and components of a Moon landing without actu...
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Apollo 15
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Apollo 15 was the ninth manned mission in the Apollo program, the fourth mission to land on the Moon and the eighth successful manned mission. It was the first of what were termed "J missions", long duration stays on the Moon with a greater focus on science than had been possible on previou...
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Apollo 4, also known as Apollo-Saturn 501 (AS-501), was an A type mission - the first flight of the Saturn V launch vehicle, carrying no crew. It was also the first flight of the S-IC and S-II stages of the rocket. The launch, at 7:00 a.m. EST on November 9, 1967 from Launch Complex 39, was the first from th...
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Apollo 17 was the eleventh manned space mission in the NASA Apollo program. It was the first night launch of a U.S. human spaceflight and the sixth and final lunar landing mission of the Apollo program. The mission was launched at 12:33 a.m. EST on December 7, 1972, and concluded on December 19. [url=h...
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Apollo 9
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Apollo 9 was the first manned flight of the Command/Service Module (CSM) along with the Lunar Module (LM). After launching on March 3, 1969, the crew spent ten days in low Earth orbit. Read more
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Apollo 6, launched on April 4, 1968, was the Apollo program's second and last A type mission-unmanned test flight of its Saturn V launch vehicle. Read more
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Apollo 16, the tenth manned mission in American Apollo space program, was the fifth mission to land on the Moon and the first to land in a highlands area. Launched on April 16, 1972, it was a J-class mission, featuring a Lunar Rover; and brought back 94.7 kg of lunar samples. Read more
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