Crowdfunding project aims to save Neil Armstrong's spacesuit
The National Air and Space Museum is launching a crowdfunding campaign to conserve the spacesuit Neil Armstrong wore on the moon.
The National Air and Space Museum is launching a crowdfunding campaign to conserve the spacesuit Neil Armstrong wore on the moon.
Space Exploration
Jul 20, 2015
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Long-lost footage of Neil Armstrong descending the ladder of the Apollo 11 lunar module will be screened in public for the first time in Sydney next week, a prominent astronomer told AFP.
Space Exploration
Sep 28, 2010
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Four months after the success of Apollo 11, NASA launched Apollo 12 in November 1969. Almost exactly 40 years later, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has seen the landing site.
Space Exploration
Sep 3, 2009
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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.
Space Exploration
Jul 20, 2009
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(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 40 years ...
Space Exploration
Jul 17, 2009
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(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.
Space Exploration
Jul 16, 2009
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They have travelled further than any fashion item on Earth, surviving a hostile environment and extremes of heat and cold on a world far from ours. But now age is catching up with NASA spacesuits.
Space Exploration
Jul 16, 2009
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Neil Armstrong was supposed to be asleep. The moonwalking was done. The moon rocks were stowed away. His ship was ready for departure. In just a few hours, the Eagle's ascent module would blast off the Moon, something no ...
Space Exploration
Jul 15, 2009
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