Moon Rock Turns Out to be Fake
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Dutch national Rijksmuseum made an embarrassing announcement last week that one of its most loved possessions, a moon rock, is a fake -- just an old piece of petrified wood that's never ...
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Sep 01, 2009 |
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Exploring the Moon, Discovering Earth
(PhysOrg.com) -- Forty years ago, Apollo astronauts set out on a daring adventure to explore the Moon. They ended up discovering their own planet.
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Google offers 'guided tour' of the moon
(AP) -- Google Inc. is offering a more wide-ranging view of the Moon, 40 years after humans first landed there.
Jul 20, 2009 |
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One small step in the search for moonwalk tapes
The world will get the first glimpse of what the historic Apollo 11 moonwalk really looked like thanks to the exceptional footage taken from Australian telescopes on 21 July (Australian time) 1969.
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Jul 20, 2009 |
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Historic 'moon issue' of Science freely available
The historic 30 January 1970 edition of the journal Science, featuring analysis of the first geological samples from the Moon, is now freely available to the public to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the first lunar ...
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Jul 20, 2009 |
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Apollo 11 astronauts look beyond moon, toward Mars
(AP) -- The astronauts who first landed on the moon aren't dwelling on their small lunar steps. Instead, two of them on Sunday urged mankind to take a giant leap to Mars.
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Jul 20, 2009 |
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40 years later, moon still giant leap for mankind
(AP) -- The measure of what humanity can accomplish is a size 9 1/2 bootprint. It belongs to Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon. It will stay on the moon for millions of years with nothing to wipe ...
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Jul 19, 2009 |
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Where were you when Apollo 11 landed? Not born yet
(AP) -- Most Americans have never known a world where man hasn't been to the moon. It used to be a given that people knew where they were when man first walked on the moon on July 20, 1969, watching the black-and-white ...
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Jul 19, 2009 |
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Apollo 11 crew: Aldrin likes spotlight, 2 shun it
(AP) -- In the 40 years since Apollo 11, some of the key players, most notably Neil Armstrong, have steered clear of the increasingly bright glare of the moonlight cast by the historic lunar landing. Others ...
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Jul 19, 2009 |
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Space: Is the final frontier all it used to be?
(AP) -- On July 22, 1969, barely 48 hours after a human being first stepped onto the moon's surface, a community in Pittsburgh's western suburbs called Moon Township had a parade, as suburban communities ...
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Jul 18, 2009 |
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Apollo astronauts relive experiences at ceremony
(AP) -- It was a reunion of reunions. Twelve Apollo astronauts reminisced, traded stories and poked fun at each other Friday night as the 40th anniversary of the first moon landing and moonwalk approached.
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Jul 18, 2009 |
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Apollo 11 moon rocks still crucial 40 years later, say researchers
(PhysOrg.com) -- A lunar geochemist at Washington University in St. Louis says that there are still many answers to be gleaned from the moon rocks collected by the Apollo 11 astronauts on their historic moonwalk ...
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Jul 17, 2009 |
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LROC's first look at the Apollo landing sites
The imaging system on board NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) recently had its first of many opportunities to photograph the Apollo landing sites. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) imaged ...
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Jul 17, 2009 |
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NASA dusts off forgotten artifacts in new exhibit
(AP) -- The spacesuit was one of three made for the last man to set foot on the moon, but Doug Fisher found it balled up and forgotten at the bottom of a cardboard box.
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Jul 16, 2009 |
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NASA lost moon footage, but Hollywood restores it (Update)
(AP) -- NASA could put a man on the moon but didn't have the sense to keep the original video of the live TV transmission.
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Jul 16, 2009 |
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