60 years ago: Ranger 8 moon photos aid in Apollo site selection
Before Apollo astronauts set foot upon the moon, much remained unknown about the lunar surface. While most scientists ...
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Auction offers Neil Armstrong's reply to NASA engineer's Apollo 11 mission patch ideas
Neil Armstrong was appreciative, but it was too late. The Apollo 11 crew had a design for the first moon landing. Armstrong's ...
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The Otherwise Unremarkable ‘Rock Boxes’ That Brought Pieces of the Moon Back to Earth
Far from ordinary, it took a cutting-edge NASA design to safeguard these treasures during the Apollo missions Elana Scherr Apollo Lunar Sample Container No. 1008, triple-sealed, in which the ...
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Auction offers Neil Armstrong's reply to NASA engineer's Apollo 11 mission patch ideas
The path itself appears to be filled with the ... extended his thanks on an autographed photo for McClelland's "help on the Apollo XI mission & emblem." Both Armstrong's and Collins' signed ...