Visitors to this Smithsonian exhibit can experience what the astronauts saw aboard Apollo 11. Staff discovered numbers etched onto a smooth wall panel beneath lockers indicating some degree of flexibility had occurred in its layout and preflight plans. Miller uses enhanced archival footage and often splits the screen to display two or more shots simultaneously…
By monitoring seismic waves that were transmitted through Mars’ interior, scientists discovered a layer of molten rock surrounding its liquid metal core – thus challenging current theories about its structure and evolution. This new discovery could help scientists gain a greater understanding of how Mars formed, evolved and lost its capacity for life over time….
NFSA’s archive footage of the July 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing demonstrates humanity at its finest, from cars driving along highways to picnic rugs in Florida’s Merritt Island where sideburns and Instamatic cameras fill the screen in eagerness and expectation. But Miller appears to have hastened the editing of these tapes; his goal was likely…
The Planetary Society battled hard for New Horizons mission’s successful launch to Pluto. When its flyby of this classic solar system planet and its four tiny moons Styx, Nix, Hydra and Kerberos took place in July 2015 it revolutionized our understanding of this classic world. Scientists are still processing the wealth of data New Horizons…
