Smithsonian Magazine on MSN1 天
The Otherwise Unremarkable ‘Rock Boxes’ That Brought Pieces of the Moon Back to Earth
Its official name is the Apollo Lunar Sample Return Container No. 1008, but everyone, including Teasel Muir-Harmony, curator ...
PBS7 年
The Apollo Missions
Pete Conrad, Dick Gordon and Alan Bean collected rocks from the Ocean of Storms on Apollo 12. Alan Shepard who had been the first American in space, commanded Apollo 14 and landed with Ed Mitchell ...
Hackaday6 年
Apollo 12 Was The Lucky Number Among Apollo Disasters
Each mission had problems. Apollo 11 overran its computers. We just talked about 12, and the issues on 13 are well known. Apollo 14 almost didn’t have a successful docking between the command ...
来自MSN3 个月
On Today's Date: Apollo 12 Struck By Lightning – Twice
T his segment originally appeared in today's edition of the Morning Brief newsletter. Sign up here to get weekday updates from The Weather Channel and our meteorologists. I magine a rocket ...
Time7 年
Unseen Apollo
though the fogging or streaking would often clear up as the sun warmed the spacecraft skin. The public saw only the pretty pictures shot through clear windows, but here the Apollo 12 crew took a ...