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'Apollo 13' turns 30: How NASA legend Gerry Griffin helped director Ron Howard 'get it right'
As 'Apollo 13' turns 30, we talk to legendary NASA flight director Gerry Griffin who helped make the film as realistic as ...
'Apollo 13' movie turns 30; its Delaware connection is a popular Milford landmark
Lovell was played by Tom Hanks in the movie that was nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture. "Apollo 13," directed by Ron Howard, is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. It ...
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'Apollo 13' at 30: the space movie where scientists have the right stuff too
The so-called "right stuff" manifests rather differently in "Apollo 13". Sure, this generation of astronauts knows the final ...
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International Space Station welcomes its first astronauts from India, Poland and Hungary
The first astronauts in more than 40 years from India, Poland and Hungary arrived at the International Space Station ...
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Apollo, space shuttle astronauts faces of moonbound payload - Orlando Sentinel
Apollo 16 astronaut Charlie Duke took this photo of a picture of his family left on the surface of the moon in 1972. (Charles Duke/NASA) But the surface temperature on the moon was about 210 ...
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Apollo Astronauts Left American Flags, Boots and Even Poop on the Moon. Here's Why These Artifacts Matter - Smithsonian Magazine
Apollo Astronauts Left American Flags, ... including a Bible and a photo of astronaut Charles Duke’s family. ... ending with Apollo 17 in 1972. No one has set foot on the moon since.
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William Anders, former Apollo 8 astronaut, dies in plane crash
William Anders, former Apollo 8 astronaut, dies in plane crash 01:34. Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders, who snapped one of the most iconic images of the space age — a mesmerizing view of the blue ...
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Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders dies in plane crash - Task & Purpose
William Anders, Air Force pilot, diplomat, nuclear engineer and astronaut who was one of the first three people to orbit the Moon as part of the Apollo 8 mission, died Friday, June 7 when his ...
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Bill Anders, former Apollo 8 astronaut, dies in plane crash - Los Angeles Times
Astronaut Bill Anders, who orbited the moon aboard Apollo 8 in 1968, has died in a plane crash off the coast of Washington state. His photo 'Earthrise' captivated the world.
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NASA astronaut Bill Anders, who took famous photo of Earth during Apollo, dies at 90
Awestruck, Anders snapped the timeless shot of the glorious blue and white planet rising over the horizon of the gray and lifeless moon, and "how... Apollo astronaut Bill Anders, who captured one ...
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Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders who took iconic ‘Earthrise’ photo dies in plane crash | CNN - CNN International
William Anders, a NASA astronaut who was part of the Apollo 8 crew who became the first three people to circle the moon, has died in a plane crash.
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Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders, who took iconic Earthrise photo, has died in Washington plane crash - PBS
SEATTLE (AP) — Retired Maj. Gen. William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic “Earthrise” photo showing the planet as a shadowed blue marble from space in 1968, was ...