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The Otherwise Unremarkable ‘Rock Boxes’ That Brought Pieces of the Moon Back to Earth
Its official name is the Apollo Lunar Sample Return Container No. 1008, but everyone, including Teasel Muir-Harmony, curator ...
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Apollo 12 Was The Lucky Number Among Apollo Disasters
Each mission had problems. Apollo 11 overran its computers. We just talked about 12, and the issues on 13 are well known. Apollo 14 almost didn’t have a successful docking between the command ...
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The Apollo Missions
subsequent Apollo missions put ten more men on the moon. Pete Conrad, Dick Gordon and Alan Bean collected rocks from the Ocean of Storms on Apollo 12. Alan Shepard who had been the first American ...
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On Today's Date: Apollo 12 Struck By Lightning – Twice
T his segment originally appeared in today's edition of the Morning Brief newsletter. Sign up here to get weekday updates from The Weather Channel and our meteorologists. I magine a rocket ...
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Unseen Apollo
Apollo missions never flew during a full moon ... is visible only as a long shadow. The 12 men who walked on the moon had to reckon with a problem no photographers in history ever had before ...
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What happened to the flags Apollo astronauts left on the moon?
Even if the flags have remained standing when crews rocketed off the moon, it is almost certain that they are not in the same condition as when they were first deployed on the lunar surface.