The Civil Rights Act had just passed and the slide rule was giving way to computers when Frances "Poppy" Northcutt arrived at NASA's Houston campus in 1965, eager to join the space race. But her job title stunned her: "computress."
Space Exploration
Jul 18, 2019
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Nearly 50 years after our first steps on the moon, samples from the Apollo missions, Mars and Vesta still have a lot to tell us about the formation of the planets and the Earth's volcanoes, and Diamond Light Source is helping ...
Space Exploration
Jul 17, 2019
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Look up on a clear night and you can see some circular formations on the face of our lunar neighbour. These are impact craters, circular depressions found on planetary surfaces.
Space Exploration
Jul 17, 2019
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The passage of half a century has blurred many of the reasons that the United States was able to accomplish what seemed like science fiction: the July 20, 1969, landing of Apollo 11 on the moon.
Space Exploration
Jul 16, 2019
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We've all been there: you're working on something important, your PC crashes, and you lose all your progress.
Space Exploration
Jul 12, 2019
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India will step up the international space race on Monday when it launches a low-cost mission to become only the fourth country to land a probe on the Moon.
Space Exploration
Jul 12, 2019
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Fifty years ago, Neil Armstrong's famous first steps on the surface of the moon demonstrated both ground-breaking technical expertise and immense political will. Science and technology have made considerable progress since ...
Space Exploration
Jul 9, 2019
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Before Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin knew they would be the first to walk on the moon, they took crash courses in geology at the Grand Canyon and a nearby impact crater that is the most well-preserved on Earth.
Space Exploration
Jul 8, 2019
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The maps and images created by a small UA team at the start of the space race opened the door for lunar and planetary exploration 50 years ago.
Space Exploration
Jun 27, 2019
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Moon rocks look rather nondescript—they are often gray in color—but for NASA planetary scientist Samuel Lawrence, they are the "most precious materials on Earth."
Space Exploration
Jun 16, 2019
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