The Apollo 8 mission, the historical moment when humans managed to escape the gravitational field of the Earth, orbit the Moon, and then return safely, represented a monumental achievement in many ways. Though it was only the second manned mission of the Apollo program, it managed to pave the way for the landing on t... |
23 December 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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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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