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The Otherwise Unremarkable ‘Rock Boxes’ That Brought Pieces of the Moon Back to Earth
Its official name is the Apollo Lunar Sample Return Container No. 1008, but everyone, including Teasel Muir-Harmony, curator ...
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Auction offers Neil Armstrong's reply to NASA engineer's Apollo 11 mission patch ideas
Neil Armstrong was appreciative, but it was too late. The Apollo 11 crew had a design for the first moon landing. Armstrong's ...
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50 years ago: Apollo 11 rolls out, NASA…
Fifty years ago today, the massive Saturn V rocket for the Apollo 11 mission that would fulfill President Kennedy’s goal of “landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth ...
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Rare Apollo 11 Footage, Remixed and in HD
The Space Launch System is the Most Powerful Rocket Ever Built (02:26) How a 'Non-Hazardous' NASA Mission Turned Deadly (04:04) How the Common Cold Affected the Crew of Apollo 7 (03:32 ...
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From launch to lunar landing: Photos show first journey to the moon 50 years ago
One of the largest machines ever built, the 363-foot rocket was as tall as a 36-story building. Personnel within the Launch Control Center watch the Apollo 11 liftoff. The LCC is located 3.5 ...
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Magnificent communication: Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin tests Verizon satellite service in new ad
Aldrin is still planting flags 56 years after he did so on the moon, only now it is in a commercial asking "Can you text me ...