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Apollo 11 - Wikipedia  Apollo 11 was the first spaceflight that landed humans on the Moon. Mission commander Neil ... Armstrong and Aldrin then moved into the lunar module Eagle and landed in the ... Apollo 11 was the second all-veteran multi-person crew (the first being ... After the crew of Apollo 10 named their spacecraft Charlie Brown and...
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J! Archive - Show #2988, aired 1997-09-03  As the moon changes from new to full, it's said to be doing this; then it ... The second named lunar mission, it crashed its module to test lunar...
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[2.0] Missions To The Moon (1) - Vectors  Jul 1, 2016 ... The Earth's Moon is a barren, lifeless body, but its bright presence in the sky has .... The mission was a success, with "Luna 3", as it was formally named, curving ... Neither made orbit, with the second launch failure resulting in .... Its retrorockets went off too soon and the probe crashed into the Sea of Storms.
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Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package - Wikipedia  The Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP) comprised a set of scientific instruments placed by the astronauts at the landing site of each of the five Apollo missions to land on the Moon following ... On Apollo 12, 13, and 14, the second subpackage also stored the Lunar Hand Tool Carrier (HTC). The exact...
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ALSEP - NASA Headquarters  Jul 19, 2010 ... Generally, 100 meters to the west of the Lunar Module (but not in its .... Due to Apollo 11 being more of a test flight than a scientific mission, a simplified package was chosen. .... These man-made crashes produced seismic events of known times .... The second kind of charge was similar to that of a mortar.
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Charles P. Pete Conrad, Captain, United States Navy  It was typical Pete Conrad, friends said, as they buried the man Monday who was the third ... "Man, that may have been a small one for Neil, but that's a long one for me. .... the moon after bringing the lunar module down in the moon's Ocean of Storms. .... Conrad's career in space began when NASA selected him as part of its...
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Sample return mission - Revolvy  A sample return mission is a spacecraft mission with the goal of collecting and returning ... Samples of Moon rock from Earth's Moon were collected both from ... easier than a sample return mission, the scientific tools available here on Earth to ...... RVSN Luna 20 RVSN Lunar Lunar sample return February 25, 1972 (Earth)...
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Luna 20 - Wikipedia  Luna 20 was the second of three successful Soviet lunar sample return missions. It was flown as part of the Luna program as a robotic competitor to the six successful Apollo lunar sample return missions. Luna 20 was placed in an intermediate Earth parking orbit and from this orbit ... On February 21, 1972, Luna 20 soft landed on the Moon in a mountainous...
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The Real Story Of Apollo 17... And Why We Never Went Back To The ...  Dec 12, 2015 ... This was not only our final Moon landing, but the last time we left low ... Crewed by Commander Eugene A. Cernan, Command Module Pilot ... Module Pilot Harrison P. Schmitt, the Apollo 17 mission was the first to ... 25 feet, down at 2. ... mission, and with efforts towards the next phase under Apollo were...
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CHRONOLOGY OF DEFINING EVENTS IN NASA HISTORY  1959 The United States launched Vanguard 2, the first successful launch of this ... 9 Apr. 1959 After a two month selection process, on this date NASA unveiled the .... 28 May 1964 The United States placed the first Apollo Command Module ... the Soviet Union achieved lunar orbit with its Luna 10 space probe, the first such...
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ApolloSoyuz Test Project - Wikipedia  The ApolloSoyuz Test Project (ASTP) conducted in July 1975, was the first joint U.S.Soviet .... The Soviet Union criticised the Apollo spacecraft as being "extremely ... its radio call sign was simply "Soyuz" for the duration of the joint mission. .... end of the Space Shuttle program to dock to Mir and then the International Space...
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History - The Flight of Apollo 13  Apollo 13, the third human lunar landing and exploration mission, had been ... crew assignments for Apollo 13 were announced, eventually James A. Lovell ... A few seconds later the quantity indicator for tank number two went off the ... Before long, however, both MCC and the crew realized that oxygen tank number two had...
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Apollo Lunar Module - Wikipedia  Google Moon overview of Apollo landing sites  NASA catalog: ... Apollo Operations Handbook, Lunar Module (LM 11 and Subsequent), Volume Two. ... how to prepare the LM for activation and flight during a mission...
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Apollo Lunar Module - Wikipedia  The Apollo Lunar Module (LM), originally designated the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM), was ... Throughout the flight, he performed the role of an engineering officer, ... After visual inspection of the landing gear by the Command Module Pilot, the LM .... lunar landing occurred on July 20, 1969 with the Apollo 11 LM Eagle.
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Megalightning and The Demise of STS-107 Space Shuttle Columbia  The breach was initiated by a piece of insulating foam that separated from the .... From Flight Day Two and onward through the mission, the Board identified no ..... In 1998, Lyons and a team of scientists reported one that was sparked by a meteor. ... on Columbia, it would not only change the focus of the crash investigation,...
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Apollo 17 Summary - Views of the Solar System  Launched: December 7, 1972; Landed on the Moon: December 11, 1972 ... He was the only LM Commander to have flown a mission as Lunar Module Pilot and ... One of these was an array of geophones designed to detect seismic waves .... During the rest period after the first Apollo 17 EVA, Gene Cernan took up the art of...
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Ranger | Science Mission Directorate  May 22, 2016 ... These missions, which were the first American spacecraft to land on the moon, ... The Ranger series of spacecraft were designed to take high-quality ... close-range images back to Earth right up until they crashed into the surface. ... Inner Solar System  Outer Solar System  Small Bodies of the Solar System.
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Apollo 11 - Wikipedia  Apollo 11 was the first spaceflight that landed humans on the Moon. Mission commander Neil Armstrong and pilot Buzz Aldrin landed the lunar module Eagle on July 20, 1969, at 20:18 UTC. ..... Then Armstrong walked 196 feet (60 m) from the LM to snap photos at the rim of Little West Crater while Aldrin collected two core...
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About TI  History  TI.com - Texas Instruments  1930s. Geophysical Service Inc., a small oil and gas company, opens in 1930. ... We begin applying signal processing technologies to submarine detection, then ... Instruments Incorporated, entering the semiconductor industry by inventing the ... The Apollo Lunar Exploration Module containing TI components lands on the...
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Viking at 40: How NASA Mission Brought Mars Into the Light  Jul 20, 2016 ... NASA's Viking 1 lander touched down on Mars 40 years ago today (July 20), marking the start of the up-close investigation of the Red Planet. ... The duo also famously conducted life-detection experiments whose results are still ... Viking 2's seismometer picked up magnitude-3-level marsquakes, though the...
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HamishALSEP - NASA Headquarters  Jul 19, 2010 ... Passive Lunar Seismic Experiment, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, .... The instrument was sensitive enough to detect the astronauts's footfalls as .... These man-made crashes produced seismic events of known times and .... using a device called a "thumper" along a 90-meter-long geophone line.