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Alan Bean’s moonscapes show what photographs can’t.
Quiet, smooth, dependable—shouldn’t we be flying these by now?
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Space historian Matthew Hersch writes:This year marks the 40th anniversary not only of Apollo 11’s historic moon landing, but of the vigorous public debate that accompanied it—debate that, decades later, shows no signs of weakening. Human spaceflight has always been controversial, and condemnation ...
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Bill Carpentier recalls the day the Apollo 11 astronauts returned from the moon.
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<p>No, seriously.</p>
Since the first Space Camp opened in Huntsville, Alabama, in 1982, the idea has spawned many imitators. Today there are space camps in Turkey, Norway, Canada, and Japan, not to mention a host of smaller-scale space "experiences" at science museums around the world.Now there's a space camp at the co...
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The Soviets called it the N1, and kept it secret, of course. What a hard secret that must have been to keep, considering just how awesome this rocket was. A tall, ultra-steep cone, it was a bit more 19th century in appearance, more science fictiony-looking, than the square shouldered and cylindrica...
Each year the ranks of surviving veterans of World War I—which began on this day 95 years ago—get thinner. Now just a handful are left. Henry Allingham, who joined the Royal Naval Air Service as a teenager in 1915, died on July 18 at the age of 113. He was the last British veteran of the war, and, ...
It’s a tough call for prop-heads: Which do I watch? At 9 p.m. Monday, National Geographic airs “Secret Lives of Charles Lindbergh,” which notes the seven children he fathered with three German women. PBS counters with “History Detectives,” which evaluates the likelihood that a piece of an aircraft...
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It's diamond shaped. And it's the crown jewel of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, displayed on the first floor in the Milestones of Flight Gallery. It's the Apollo 11 command module, the heat shield charred from entering Earth's atmosphere at Mach 35.Last Sunday, July 19, as the Apoll...
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A hundred years ago, Louis Blériot made the first aerial crossing of the English channel. On Saturday, French Pilot Edmond Salis recreated the flight (see video here), followed a day later by Mikael Carlson of Sweden, who had tried to take off on the day of the centennial, but was grounded by Frenc...
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<p>A name you should know.</p>
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Mr. Ian Sheffield claims to have not one, but two dust samples of the Moon.
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The astronauts of the 1960s were mostly a crewcut bunch, but by 1969 fashions were changing, and Apollo crews returning to Earth had to make a decision: Should I shave off my moon beard? Most did, but a few experimented with new looks when they got back. Mike Collins of Apollo 11 (right), kept hi...
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<p>He looked a little different after Apollo 11.</p>
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Seen up close, is the lunar surface gray? Brown? How about “a cheery rose color?”
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Say what you will about Michael Griffin, NASA’s last Administrator—the guy was a true space cadet, wholly committed to the idea of moving humanity beyond Earth orbit for the first time in 40 years. In fact, he seemed impatient with anyone who didn’t share that commitment. He professed to be driven ...
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Forty years later, moonwalkers reflect on their historic achievement.
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