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Diagrams of the Laser Ranging Retroreflector from a NASA press kit on the Apollo 11 Lunar Landing Mission from June, ... Photo was taken by Neil Armstrong of the Apollo 11 mission on July 20, 1969.
Original Caption From 1969: Moon-landing flight plan of Apollo 11 is shown by diagram. What’s never been done before begins with braking maneuver labeled Powered Descent Initiation, and ends ...
Apollo 10 got within nine miles of the moon's surface. The crew took pictures and gathered information about the landing sites for Apollo 11. This mission began on May 18, 1969 and ended on May 26.
We've all seen footage from the Apollo 11 mission, when the world watched as two American men walked on the moon for the first time. It was the stuff of fantasy made real, not science fiction but ...
Diagrams showing navigational techniques for a lunar mission Credit: Airbus If successful, it would have placed Britain on the Moon one year ahead of the American Apollo 11 mission in July 1969.
The team aboard Apollo 11 remained in constant contact with Mission control and the command module. Just minutes before landing, at 9.10pm, a ‘1202 programme alarm’ was triggered four times.
July 20 marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing. Fisher asked if, 50 years ago, he would have believed that no other U.S. astronauts would go as far as the Apollo mission did.
When Apollo 11’s Neil Armstrong took his one giant leap on the moon nearly 50 years ago, it was a series of small steps that got him there. Four of the most important ones came from the crewe… ...
July 20 marks the 50-year anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission that saw three astronauts, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins travel to where no man had gone before. Armstrong and ...