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When Apollo 11 arrived in lunar orbit, the Soviet's probe was already there. The space race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union continued even as Apollo 11 astronauts were already walking on the ...
Russell “Rusty” Schweickart was among the first astronauts in space and the first to pilot the lunar module during the Apollo ...
This modest Ohio town gave us Neil Armstrong, the first person to leave footprints on another world. The Armstrong Air & Space Museum stands as both tribute and inspiration—its distinctive white dome ...
The Apollo 11 mission is one of the most iconic moments in human history, but did you know there’s a lesser-known story ...
The curious minds at Aperture revisit the dramatic moments and hidden challenges of Apollo 11's historic moon landing.
American Optical’s space-age shades are back. Plus, the toughest jungle boots ever, a Bluetooth speaker unlike any other and ...
The National Air and Space Museum holds approximately 17,000 space artifacts in its collection. More than 3,500 of those stem from the historic Apollo Moon landing effort, with 400 objects related ...
This spacesuit, wore by astronaut Alan Shepard during the Apollo 14 mission in 1974, still has the gray moon dust on it. Because of its abrasive nature, the moon dust covered spacesuits and ...
Amazingly, the samples of material from the moon retrieved by the Apollo missions are still providing new insights more than 50 years later, in this case how tiny glass beads that litter the lunar ...
Hunt said that, in 1979, while still in high school, he joined the Marine Corps on a delayed-entry program for recruits who ...
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