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Tom Hanks' 'The Moonwalkers' makes US premiere at Space Center Houston
"There are times when I've seen it and I'm thinking, 'Why is the hair standing up on the back of my neck right now?'" — Tom ...
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Skylab at 50 – How the United States...Skylab at 50 – How the United States...Skylab at 50 – How the United States entered the space station...
On May 14, 1973, the final Saturn V rocket lifted ... exclusively by the United States. Skylab’s large size was a result of its use of surplus hardware from the Apollo program.
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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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Auction offers Neil Armstrong's reply to NASA engineer's Apollo 11 mission patch ideas
"Thanks for all your effort," wrote the first moonwalker. Neil Armstrong was appreciative, but as explained in his ...
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Apollo 11 anniversary: Why humans haven't been back to the moon
The successful Apollo 11 mission delivered two American astronauts ... as to why NASA packed up the Apollo programme. 'The USA had won the race, the Vietnam war was costing a lot, and the ...
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Memories of watching Apollo 11: ‘You could hear a pin drop’
Frank Schramm of Montclair, N.J., was 12 years old and away at summer camp for four weeks of swimming, hiking and building rockets. The Apollo 11 landing was during his second week at Camp Watonka ...
Make the Moon Great Again — or lose it to China? The new space race heats up
In 2022 the first stage, Artemis I, saw the test of a new rocket and uncrewed lunar module called Orion sent around the moon ...
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Nikita Khrushchev’s Son Watched his Father Lose the Space Race. 50 Years After the Moon Landing, He Holds No Grudge
Kennedy of the United States and Premier Nikita Khrushchev of ... Just hours before, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin had landed on the moon, stepped outside, set up a suite ...
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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 ...