The 93-year-old marked the second time a privately built spacecraft has reached the lunar ... As the Lunar Module pilot for Apollo 11, he played a crucial role in the historic moon landing on ...

It will deploy an ice-mining drill and mass spectrometer, a miniaturized rover, and a unique "hopper" craft to explore the interior ... Apollo 8 (the first crew-carrying Moon voyage) and Apollo 11 ...

Aug. 27, 2024 — Lunar igneous activities including intrusive and extrusive magmatism, and their products contain significant information about the lunar interior and its thermal state.

The spacesuit worn by the first Briton in space, the Soyuz that brought the first UK astronaut back to Earth and the only ...

One returned two amber glass cigar ashtrays used during the mission – preferred by the chain-smoking Apollo 11 Mission Control team as the smaller, square cigarette ashtrays filled too quickly – from ...

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Spacecraft communicators keep in contact with Apollo 11 Left to right: Charles M Duke Jr, James A Lovell Jr and Fred W Haise Jr (Credit: Nasa) Neil Armstrong practises climbing into Apollo 11's ...

The spacesuit worn by the first Briton in space, the Russian capsule that brought ... Huygens Titan lander and NASA's Apollo 11 lunar module "Eagle," which delivered astronauts Neil Armstrong ...