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3-2-1 ... and Liftoff: Manned Space Flights Mark 50th Anniversary
By Lee Speigel - AOL News"Three ... 2 ... 1 ...ignition ... and liftoff." With those famous words first heard in Russian and then English, rocket engines burst into life, sending manned vehicles through the extreme "g" forces of vertical acceleration into Earth orbit and into the history books. On this date 20 years apart, two milestones were reached that set the tone for human space exploration. The Soviet Union took the first leap, surprising the world on April 12, 1961, launching air force pilot Yuri Gagarin into orbit -- a single 108-minute loop around Earth -- making him the first human to fly in space. And 20 ...
China Launches Lunar Probe as NASA Turns Back on Moon
By Hugh Collins - AOL News
(Oct. 1) -- China today launched its second lunar probe, the same week NASA severely curtailed its moon program more than 40 years after Neil Armstrong's giant leap for mankind. China launched the Chang'e-2 probe from a site in Sichuan province. It is expected to reach lunar orbit in about five days, Xinhua News reported. AP A Long March 3C rocket carrying China's second unmanned lunar probe launches Friday from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in China's Sichuan province.The launch is part of an ambitious space program that aims to put a man on the moon later this decade. The probe ...
New Footage of Neil Armstrong Moonwalk Surfaces
By Hugh Collins - AOL News(Sept. 29) -- Previously lost footage of Neil Armstrong's 1969 moonwalk will be shown in Australia next week. The recording, unnoticed for years in archives in Australia, shows the first few minutes of the astronaut's descent from Apollo 11. The footage, which was misplaced for years, is believed to be some of the best-quality pictures of the moonwalk. "NASA were using the Goldstone (California) station signal, which had its settings wrong, but in the signals being received by the Australian stations, you can actually see Armstrong, " historian John Sarkissian told Agence France-Presse. ...
Warhol in Space: Apollo 12 Secretly Carried Art to the Moon
By David Moye - AOL News(June 17) -- Neil Armstrong's moon walk on the 1969 Apollo 11 mission was a small step for a man and a giant leap for mankind, but a small ceramic tile snuck aboard the Apollo 12 mission a few months later has turned out to be a giant leap for American art. Believe it or not, one of the engineers who built the lunar module for the Apollo 12, the second moon landing, snuck aboard a tiny ceramic chip containing original artwork by six of the American art world's biggest names, including Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg and Robert Rauschenberg, creating a permanent miniature art museum on the ...
Study: Apollo Moon Rocks Contained Water All Along
By David Knowles - AOL News(March 14) -- Who says you can't get water from a stone? According to new research, evidence that water exists on the moon is contained within rocks brought back from the Apollo program of the 1960s and '70s. That finding comes just months after NASA, in an attempt to prove the existence of water on our nearest celestial neighbor, crashed a rocket into the moon, capturing what the agency said was clear imagery of water vapor amid a cloud of dust. So why didn't scientists notice that the rocks astronauts had collected from the surface of the moon more than three decades ago bore traces of ...
Nixon's Speech Was Ready in Case of Apollo Disaster
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyForty years ago today, Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin became the first men to walk on the moon. But their success was not preordained. In fact, Nixon speechwriter William Safire (on the advice of astronaut Frank Borman) prepared the following words for Nixon to deliver in the event of a disaster that might strand Armstrong and Aldrin on the lunar surface: Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace. These brave men, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, know that there is no hope for their recovery. But they also know that ...
One Small Step for Science, One Giant Leap Away From Celebrity
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyThursday is the 40th anniversary of the launch of Apollo 11 to the moon, where astronaut Neil Armstrong famously took a giant leap for mankind (that's us, too, ladies!) and a small step for man (just you fellows that time.) How to celebrate this? Well, you could read up on the history of space travel! You could watch old footage of the moon landing! You could get some cardboard boxes, markers and tin foil and build an Apollo 11 replica of your own! Or, you could sweep up clippings of Neil Armstrong's hair into a little plastic bag and dig up his voided checks to be sold to the highest bidder! ...
Apollo 11 and September 11: The Power of Symbols
By Jeffrey Weiss - Politics DailyTwice in my lifetime the world stopped to watch a single event on TV: On July 20, 1969, when Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon. And on Sept. 11, 2001, when the Twin Towers fell. There's one ironic connection: Both were the product of metal and fuel, technology in the service of human will. But a specific dissonance is even more striking. ...
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