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On April 23, 1962, 20:50:00 UTC Ranger 4 lifts off into space with the help of an Atlas-Agena B rocket, for a three day journey to the Moon. Ranger 4 was amongst one of the first US missions sent to the Moon to study its surface. It was part of the Ranger program, involving other eight such spacecrafts built by NASA&... |
24 April 2008
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Edwin Eugene Aldrin, or mostly known as Buzz Aldrin, is a former American astronaut famous for being the second man to put his feet on the surface of the Moon, after Mission Commander Neil Armstrong. He was the pilot of the Lunar Module on mission Apollo 11, the first ever manned spacecraft to the Moon. Previous to t... |
25 March 2008
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In the 1960s, in the middle of the cold war, the United States struggled to keep up with the Soviet Union in a so-called space, that had already surpassed them by being the first nation to successfully put a man in Earth's orbit. As a response, the President of the U.S., John Fitzgerald Kennedy in its famous spe... |
17 November 2007
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