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Four decades after the day Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin set foot on the surface of the Moon during the Apollo 11 mission, astronauts currently aboard the International Space Station (ISS) and space shuttle Endeavor marked the moment by performing the second spacewalk of STS-127. Mission specialists Dave Wolf and To... |
21 July 2009
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Off the eastern coast of central Florida, a small and tightly secured portion of the Atlantic ocean is home to a very peculiar site. A white capsule, adorned with three orange spheres on its “nose,” floats around in the ocean, surrounded by research vessels and emergency crews, ready to step in if anythin... |
30 April 2009
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According to an Australian researcher, there is a very tight connection between the amounts of dust that are in the lunar atmosphere at each given point and the time of the day when dust readings are recorded. He says that, when astronauts in the 1960s and the 1970s walked on the Moon, it was in the early hours of th... |
22 April 2009
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The Ancient Greeks are famous for the magnificent temples they built to honor their gods, some of which precede many other religions that are currently present in Europe. The constructions were truly architectonic wonders, considering the fact that the technology at the time, namely more than 2,000 years ago, didn�... |
2 February 2009
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As described in a previous article, Moon dust is a terrible problem that astronauts have to face and which has to be solved if humans are ever supposed to set a firm foot on lunar surface for more than just an erratic scientific expedition. That type of dust is extremely fine and rugged, as well as very adherent to a... |
11 November 2008
07:18 GMT |
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Extremely fine, like flour, but still sandpaper-rough, moon dust infiltrates the astronauts' spacesuits, causing "lunar hay fever," and creates dust storms within the shuttle cabins. All of the Apollo missions that took place between 1969 and 1972 reported the same major problem: lunar dust. As professor La... |
26 September 2008
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Last week, Imation, one of the leading manufacturers of storage and portable media solutions, introduced two new products, part of the Apollo family of external hard drives. The Apollo Expert and Apollo Pro external hard drives (EHDs) have been designed to deliver an optimum storage solution in a 2.5-inch and 3.5-inc... |
22 September 2008
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Soil samples returned from the Moon during the Apollo missions were for the first time proven to contain trace amounts of water, although they cannot indicate how much water is currently present there nor can they be used to predict a method through which water could be extracted in the near future. The long expected... |
10 July 2008
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Many of the constellations on the night sky have names associated to animals. Corvus, the Crow, is just one of them. It becomes visible in spring in the southern areas of the sky for people living in the mid-northern latitudes in the vicinity of the Leo constellation. It has a relatively small quadrilateral-like patt... |
23 May 2008
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Lunar dust is now probably one of the biggest issues considered in the event of a future manned mission to the surface of the Moon. It is a highly abrasive fine powder covering the whole surface of the Moon, it can easily get stuck to equipment and spacesuits and it can even get into tight spaces, such as joints, and... |
14 May 2008
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They say you can't build anything without it, and it is probably the best invention ever. I don't know about that, however duct tape saved the day during the Apollo 17 mission to the Moon. On 11 December 1972, the Apollo 17 mission landed on the Moon the lunar module Challenger, with astronauts Gene Cernan ... |
22 April 2008
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NASA plans to send a manned mission to the Moon by 2020, but in order to do that it must once again learn what the Moon is like. "Humans will return to the Moon in a few years and have to know what to expect. How do you live and work in a place filled with moondust? We're trying to find out," said James Spann fr... |
11 April 2008
10:02 GMT |
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The Moon's gravity is one sixth of that on the surface of the Earth, meaning that lunar landers do not require a great deal of thrust in order to decelerate and land relatively gently on its surface, but what seem like gentle touchdowns to us here on Earth, on the Moon such events can get relatively violent. Lik... |
13 February 2008
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The task for such a major operation fell in the hands of the Discovery Channel, and will have the role to commemorate half of century of U.S. space agency activity. When ready, it will be presented in the popular "Planet Earth" series, under the form of a miniseries called "When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions", it ... |
6 February 2008
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Saturn V, commonly known as the Moon Rocket, was the first rocket to carry a manned mission into space for a lunar landing. On 16th July 1969, it launched the Apollo 11 mission into the Earth's orbit and put the first man on the Moon. Now, after more than 35 years of laying outside the neighboring U.S. Space & R... |
4 February 2008
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More than three decades have passed since the last manned mission to the Moon and NASA hopes to change that within the next decade. Officials have revealed recently that they plan to send a manned mission to the moon by the year 2020. In order to do so however, they need a new lunar lander, previously referred to as ... |
15 December 2007
06:17 GMT |
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Though being shot more than 40 years ago, during the 1960's when no more than five spacecrafts orbited the moon, these images have provided valuable data for the planing of the next manned mission to the moon. In the course of a year, spanning from August 1966 to August 1967, NASA's orbiter has taken an exc... |
4 December 2007
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