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Apollo 11: What have we left on the Moon?

March 10, 2019March 10, 2019

Humankind has spent a total of 300 hours on the lunar surface, courtesy of the six Apollo missions which landed on the Moon. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin visited for a fleeting 21 hours and 36 minutes during the historic Apollo 11, but the later missions lasted for up to three days each.

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All About Moon Landing on July 20th, 1969

September 1, 2012May 6, 2018

A Moon landing is the arrival of a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon. This includes both manned and unmanned (robotic) missions. The first human-made object to reach the …

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Neil Armstrong, moon’s mystery man

August 31, 2012May 6, 2018

“A lot of people couldn’t figure out Armstrong.” With those words Tom Wolfe introduced Neil Armstrong, the astronaut hero of his nonfiction masterpiece, “The Right Stuff.” Armstrong, of course, was …

Astronomy and Space / NASA and SETI

New moon pictures show astronaut tracks

September 7, 2011May 7, 2018

NASA releases the sharpest images ever of walking paths and debris at the Apollo landing sites. A spacecraft around the moon broke the highest ever pictures of the tracks and …