In a paper published in the January issue of the journal Geology, experts describe the discovery of a mineral that was thought to exist only on the Moon. The rock sample in which the material was discovered is more than a billion years old, and was found in Australia.
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6 January 2012
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Commemorating the Apollo 11 Moon-landing anniversary, NASA Television was granted a prime-time Emmy award for excellence in engineering. Its live broadcast of the historic event brought millions in front of their TV screens, regardless of whether they were from New York, Tokyo, Sidney or London. The landing itself is... |
21 August 2009
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While researching archive materials for the 40th celebration of the Moon landing, astronomers at the University of Manchester Jodrell Bank Center for Astrophysics came across some documents that really blew their minds – recordings of a Soviet attempt at landing and returning a craft on the Moon, at the same ti... |
8 July 2009
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Back in 1969, when the Apollo mission landed on the Moon, Neil Armstrong uttered his famous phrase “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind” upon setting foot on the lunar soil for the first time. Now, a linguist shows that the astronaut also meant to place an “a” before the word &l... |
4 June 2009
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The American space agency kept its choice for the new name of the Node 3 module a secret until yesterday evening, when astronaut Sunita Williams, a mission specialist for STS-117 and also a former Expedition 15 flight engineer, announced on the fake-conservative show “The Colbert Report” that the new modu... |
15 April 2009
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A new trend is being set when it comes to the luxury fashion markets – extraterrestrial matter and space-age materials, carefully embedded in wristwatches that few can get. Forget diamonds, as they're so yesterday already, and if you're thinking about gold, you'd better leave that aside too. If y... |
28 December 2008
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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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