Landing on the Moon requires immense amounts of energy. That energy must be carefully managed in order to achieve an efficient landing on its surface. Surveyor 1 was the inaugural spacecraft of its kind to take high-resolution photos and create a map of potential Apollo landing sites on the Moon’s far side. Controllers deliberately crashed […]
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Conspiracy theorists claim that Apollo missions were faked as an effort to undermine USSR dominance in space exploration, increase Nasa funding or simply divert attention away from Vietnam War issues. Their arguments typically rely on discrepancies within photographs or videos from these missions as evidence for this assertion. Apollo 11 On July 21st 1969, Apollo
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Tonight will mark a “super blood moon”, with its appearance being of dusky red hue due to being full Moon at perigee (its closest point from Earth in its orbit). Skywatchers with clear skies should be able to spot it well before dawn on Monday. Definition A super blood moon occurs when the Moon reaches
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Apollo was an ambitious program fraught with difficulty and high costs, which resulted in budget reductions and delays. This vehicle included three modules – a command module (CM) to house astronaut quarters and flight controls; a service module housing propulsion systems and other systems; and finally a lunar module capable of transporting two astronauts directly
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Computer control of spacecraft systems assisted Armstrong during descent. At certain altitudes, an abort was no longer an option and an abort procedure could only be carried out with clearance from NASA. On 20 July, Armstrong detached Eagle from Collins and began its powered descent towards the lunar surface, eventually conducting his inaugural two and
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An exciting new website provides diehard space fans with an incredible way to relive the moon landing as it happened. A wealth of audio recordings has long been accessible online; air-to-ground communications between controllers have also been preserved. But thousands of hours of supplementary conversations between controllers have remained unseen for decades – until now.
Early Wednesday morning, the Moon suddenly lit up red like an extravagant rosebud in the predawn sky for an extended period – an unprecedented celestial event known as a super blood moon eclipse. Lunar eclipses begin when the Moon enters Earth’s outer shadow, the penumbra, before moving further inward and entering its darker umbra. What
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NASA began exploring the Moon long before Neil Armstrong became the first human to set foot there, sending unmanned spacecraft missions that provided invaluable data about landing techniques and helped scientists understand its environment. These missions gave NASA vital knowledge about landing techniques while providing scientific understanding of what life might look like on the
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The Apollo program, which ran from 1961 to 1972, reached its pinnacle on July 20, when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to set foot on the Moon. Their decisions regarding approach, technology, organisation and funding had an outsized influence on human spaceflight and continue to shape today’s space exploration efforts. The
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