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‘Like a Big Ol’ Freight Train’: 45 Years Since the Launch of Apollo 17
Forty-five years ago, the combined spacecraft of Apollo 17—the Command and Service Module (CSM), named “America”, and the spider-like Lunar Module (LM), dubbed “Challenger”—slipped smoothly into lunar orbit. In doing so, it represented the ninth time in four short years that humans had ventured from Earth, across a gulf of 240,000 miles (370,000 km), to […] More
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NASA Remembers Gene Cernan, Last Apollo Moonwalker
A little more than a week since his passing, aged 82, veteran astronaut and Navy Capt. Eugene Cernan—the last man to have left his footprints on the surface of the Moon—was honored today in a touching funeral service at St. Martin’s Episcopal Church in Houston, Texas. Veteran astronaut and Navy Capt. Jim Lovell, together with […] More
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Gene Cernan, Last Apollo Moonwalker, Dies Aged 82
On 16 January, a day of reflection—the 14th anniversary of the launch of Space Shuttle Columbia on her final mission—the world lost a shining light in the early annals of human space exploration. Retired Navy Capt. Gene Cernan, veteran of three space missions and the last person to have set foot on the surface of […] More
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‘An Even Better Friend’: 45 Years Since the Apollo 17 Decision (Part 2)
Forty-five years ago, this month, NASA made the decision which would close out human exploration of the lunar surface for more than two generations: the selection of the final crew to journey to the Moon. As outlined in yesterday’s AmericaSpace history article, scathing budget cuts in the wake of Apollo 11—and finally realized after the […] More
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‘I Didn’t Feel Any Obligation’: 45 Years Since the Apollo 17 Decision (Part 1)
For almost five decades, we humans have been forced to content ourselves with the knowledge that, despite living on a blue-white marble with seven billion other souls, a mere handful of our number—just 12—have traveled across the 240,000 miles (380,000 km) cislunar gulf to walk on the dusty surface of the Moon. From Neil Armstrong’s […] More
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Sleeping On Alien Shores: The Unquiet Slumbers of the Apollo Moonwalkers
More than four decades ago, humanity first made landfall on the Moon and Apollo 11 Commander Neil Armstrong and Lunar Module Pilot (LMP) Buzz Aldrin left their footprints on the dusty regolith of the Sea of Tranquility. Over the span of those decades, we have grown familiar with the sights and sounds and experiences of […] More
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Top Ten US EVA Missions of All Time: No. 10—’The Long and the Short’
Over the course of five decades, no fewer than 211 individuals from 10 sovereign nations—Russia, the United States, France, Germany, Japan, Switzerland, Canada, Sweden, China, and Italy—have departed the pressurized confines of their spacecraft and observed the Home Planet from the unique vantage point of low-Earth orbit. Since the world’s first Extravehicular Activity (EVA), by Soviet […] More
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Walking on an Alien World: The First 50 Years of Spacewalking (Part 2)
Fifty years ago, yesterday, on 18 March 1965, humanity became an “extravehicular” spacefaring civilization for the first time, when 30-year-old Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov ventured outside his Voskhod 2 spacecraft and spent 12 minutes floating in the void. By the fall of 1966, no fewer than five U.S. astronauts had done likewise, with Gemini XII’s […] More
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Through a Glass, Darkly: Reflections on EFT-1 and Shadows of Apollo (Part 2)
Two days ago, NASA’s Orion spacecraft triumphantly sailed through its maiden shakedown voyage, the Exploration Flight Test (EFT)-1, atop a Delta IV Heavy booster. During its 4.5-hour mission, the vehicle which will someday return humans Beyond Earth Orbit (BEO) for the first time since the Apollo era was delivered twice through the harsh radiation environment […] More
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The Space Store Relocates to Florida’s Space Coast, Poised for Friday Grand Opening
The Space Store, previously located in Englewood, Colo., has moved to a new location in Brevard County’s Cocoa Village (212 Brevard Avenue), where it showcases a variety of items from children’s educational toys to rare collectors’ items for serious space enthusiasts. In this new location, CEO/manager Brett Anderson will be joined by prominent space artist […] More
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‘Miles and Miles and Miles’: Opportunity Sets New Off-World Distance Milestone
Astronaut Charles “Pete” Conrad famously quipped as he stepped upon the Moon’s surface, “Whoopee! Man, that may have been a small [step] for Neil [Armstrong], but that’s a long one for me.” Conrad was not only spoofing his predecessor’s words, but also was poking fun at his small stature. Likewise, one of the smaller rovers […] More
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LADEE Sees Zodiacal Light at Moons Horizon Just Prior to Crash
Video caption: A series of star tracker images taken by LADEE on April 12, 2014. The lunar horizon is ahead, a few minutes before orbital sunrise. Click to see gif animation. Credit: NASA Ames Mere days before its planned mission ending crash on April 17, scientists directing NASA’s wildly successful LADEE lunar orbiter sought to […] More
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