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SAN FRANCISCO - A true space hero was in town today for a NASA ... was the lunar module pilot on Apollo 16, and the youngest human at age 36 to ever walk on the moon and one of just four living ...
While analyzing samples collected during the Apollo 16 mission, Nottingham and his colleagues used mass spectrometry techniques to catalog various noble gasses and their abundance in the samples ...
The Apollo program is arguably the most famous achievement of the United States regime, but how much do you really know about ...
Studying Apollo 1’s scorched interior ... at least in the 5 psi pure oxygen atmosphere that would be used in space. At 16.7 psi, fireproofing was impossible, but engineers devised a solution ...
the first mission to use the four-wheel-drive lunar rover. John Young, Ken Mattingly and Charlie Duke of Apollo 16 and Gene Cernan, Ron Evans and Harrison Schmitt of Apollo 17 traveled ever ...
including a family photo that Apollo 16 astronaut Charlie Duke left on the lunar surface. The images were handpicked by co-writer Chris Riley, a space documentarian. "They're pristine, clear ...