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The Lunar Module (LM) was a key part of NASA’s Apollo program, responsible for carrying astronauts from lunar orbit to the ...
From that point on, Hasselblad cameras flew on every Mercury, Gemini and Apollo mission, including the unforgettable Apollo ...
Ed Smylie, the NASA official who led a team of engineers that cobbled together an apparatus made of cardboard, plastic bags and duct tape that saved the Apollo 13 crew in 1970 after an explosion ...
However, this part of the movie deviates slightly from actual history. NASA started using video and photos on the Apollo 7 mission and continued using it in every mission except Apollo 8.
The Apollo program was a NASA initiative that spanned from the early 1960s to the early 1970s with the primary goal of landing humans on the moon and safely returning them to Earth. The Apollo ...
For NASA’s Apollo program, the big break came in May 1961, eight years before the Moon landings took place. On May 25, President John F. Kennedy made an audacious proposal to a Joint Session of ...
The USS Hornet Museum has re-created the scene, with the trailer and all the equipment in the same place. The astronauts stayed in quarantine for a couple of weeks.
In 2009, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter snapped pictures of the historic Apollo 11 landing site. That mission's safe landing in 1969 was made possible, in part, by the Lunar Orbiter program.
Gene Kranz, American aerospace engineer who served as NASA's second Chief Flight Director, directing missions such as the first lunar landing mission, Apollo 11, is photographed in his home on ...
For the 54th anniversary of those astronauts’ brave steps, here is an image gallery, taken from the NASA Apollo archives. These 30 stills provide a brief insight into the training, liftoff ...