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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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The Apollo 11 lunar module
Eagle, or the Apollo 11 lunar module, was part of a larger spacecraft that launched from Kennedy Space Center on July 16, on a Saturn V rocket The lunar module was the spacecraft used to take Neil ...
Director who led Marshall Space Flight Center during Challenger disaster dead at 102
President Ronald Reagan immediately appointed a commission to investigate and report on the circumstances that led up to the ...
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The dream of offshore rocket launches is finally blasting off
Sea-based launches are hitting their stride. That could lead to a lot more space missions with a lot less red tape.
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SpaceX rocket launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida: What time is liftoff? Where to watch it
Watching a rocket launch while at the beach is SO Florida ... Launch time and day for SpaceX is possibly on the afternoon of Tuesday, Feb. 11 (see below). Rockets launch from Kennedy Space ...
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Blue Origin mimics moon gravity on 1st-of-its-kind New Shepard research rocket launch (video)
Jeff Bezos' spaceflight company Blue Origin simulated lunar gravity conditions today (Feb. 4) during the 29th launch of its New Shepard suborbital vehicle.
Meet Trailblazer: A Spunky NASA Probe on a Mission to Map the Moon’s Water
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory described the complicated maneuver that will get the Trailblazer in a position to reach ...
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A red moon: Will the next 'Sputnik Moment' be made in China?
Lunar ice deposits are critical for making rocket fuel and breathable oxygen to jumpstart the ... culminating in the triumph of Apollo 11. But some worry about a "reverse Apollo moment." If China ...