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As Project Apollo wore on, the intensity of lobbying by the scientific community to get geologist-astronaut Jack Schmitt to the Moon increased. Originally assigned to the Apollo 15 backup crew, Schmitt might have flown Apollo 18, prior to a sweeping cancelation of the final missions in the program. Photo Credit: NASA For almost […] Simulated image of Opportunity at work in Endurance crater. The “little Mars rover that could” recently surpassed a 41-year-old “off-world” distance record. Image Credit: NASA/JPL 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 […] Photo Credit : NASA / Retro Space Images Roving the Desert: Apollo 17 backup astronauts Charlie Duke and John Young are shown aboard a Lunar Rover mockup during a training session at Tonopah, Nev., in September 1972. Duke and Young had just recently returned from their own trip to the Moon aboard Apollo […] Jim Irwin works with the lunar rover, backdropped by the grandeur of Hadley, in July-August 1971. Photo Credit: NASA Chrysler, Delco, Ford, and General Motors are hardly the sort of names—at first glance—that might be associated with Project Apollo, the grandest and boldest adventure of exploration in human history. Since the dawn of […] NASA sent three Lunar Rovers to the surface of the Moon during the Apollo Program. 2012 marked the anniversary of the final flight of one of these incredible machines. Photo Credit: NASA Amid the “best of” compilations which marked the end of 2012, December 14 slipped by with little celebration. That Friday morning […] |
 Next Launch Starlink-15 on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral AFB, FL scheduled for: 25 Nov 20 at 2:13 GMT 24 Nov 20 at 9:13pm Eastern 
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