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‘Apollo 13 had a near-zero chance of survival – but Mum always thought Dad would make it back’
‘Dad always says: ‘Never leave home without duct tape!’,” chuckles Jeff Lovell, whose father, Jim, is best known for commanding Nasa’s ill-fated Apollo 13 mission in April 1970.
What Sunita Williams Will Experience During Spacecraft Reentry To Earth
Astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, stranded at the International Space Station (ISS) for over nine months, have ...
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Apollo, space shuttle astronauts become literal faces of moonbound payload
In 1972, Apollo 16 astronaut and moon walker Charlie Duke left a family photo on the lunar surface. Today that photo is long gone. But Duke’s visage is heading back to the moon this week, in a ...
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Apollo, space shuttle astronauts become literal faces of moonbound payload
Apollo 16 astronaut and moon walker Charlie Duke left a family photo on the lunar surface in 1972. It’s long gone, but a digital copy is headed back in a data storage payload aboard Intuitive ...