Chang'e-3 landing site is indicated with a white square in this lunar map, a mosaic made with the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's Wide Angle Camera. The landing sites of the Apollo missions are in red.

The Apollo 11 mission would follow this plan in the safest ... Armstrong didn’t manage this – because the planned landing site of Eagle was covered with boulders, Armstrong piloted the craft ...

NASA considered a site near the Vallis Schrasöteri ... “This kind of lunar landing assessment hasn’t been done since the 1972 Apollo mission,” said IM President and CEO, Steve Altemus.

The Apollo program is arguably the most famous achievement of the United States regime, but how much do you really know about ...

took photographs to establish viable landing areas for future missions. Their mission launched on December 21, 1968 and lasted for six days. The Lunar Module was completed in time for Apollo 9 ...

As a result, each of the six lunar landing sites from NASA’s Apollo program contains an assortment of discarded items. The later missions left behind battery-powered, four-wheeled rovers roughly ...

The film details the rigorous training astronauts undergo in preparation for space missions ... prepared before their historic lunar landing. Keywords Apollo program, astronaut training, flight ...

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SEE ALSO: 17 lesser-known photos from the Apollo 11 mission "It was immediate. It was at the time of the Apollo 11 landing," space historian Roger Launius said in an interview, explaining that ...

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Astronaut Buzz Aldrin on the Moon. In his visor you can see reflected Neil Armstrong and the Lunar Module. Mankind's first triumphant step off this world. On 20 July 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts ...