Stepping on another planet was truly extraordinary; but how they got there was even more extraordinary. As Eagle entered lunar orbit, Armstrong fired the engine to initiate a powered descent toward its surface; however, after receiving a computer alarm message he began manually controlling his descent path in order to avoid landing in a rock-filled…
Armstrong and Aldrin recorded themselves for television broadcast, showing viewers inside their cabin. After landing, they used water spraying techniques to saturate the surface before conducting soil cohesion tests on lunar soil samples collected from Luna. Armstrong completed his scheduled maneuvers by undocking Eagle from Columbia and orbiting around the Moon, while transmitting radio communications…
Mercury can enter the environment via volcanoes, burning coal, oil or trash burning or from mining and processing gold. Once released into the air it can come tumbling back down via rain or sleet and pollute soil and water supplies. BepiColombo was developed by the European Space Agency and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency to explore…
On July 24, 1969, Armstrong and Aldrin successfully descended to the Moon, taking photographs, collecting specimens from rocks and soil samples, installing a laser-ranging reflector and passive seismograph (a moonquake detector), as well as speaking with President Nixon. But their descent was far from uneventful – during a powered descent an alarm went off that…
