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Earthrise: How the Apollo 8 astronauts gave every photographer on the planet an important lesson

A lack of planning left the astronauts scrambling the snap the iconic image in the nick of time – a monumental story we can ...

In 1971, an Apollo 14 astronaut took nearly 500 tree seeds around the Moon; many later germinated into ‘Moon Trees’ on Earth

The Apollo 14 mission took a remarkable step in history by sending tree seeds into lunar orbit. After these seeds were brought back, the U.S. Forest Service managed to germinate them. During the ...
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Supercon 2023: Restoring The Apollo Guidance Computer

Humans first visited the Moon in 1969. The last time we went was 1972, over 50 years ago. Back then, astronauts in the Apollo program made their journeys in spacecraft that relied on remarkably basic ...
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Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders, who took ‘Earthrise’ picture, dies in plane crash at 90

Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders adjlusts his helmet while suiting up for his 1968 moon mission. (NASA Photo) Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders, who snapped the iconic “Earthrise” photo of our planet as ...

Apollo boilerplate to be centrepiece of Powerhouse Parramatta's opening exhibition

It took 43 days and a custom cage to bring the 4.5-tonne test command module from Washington to Castle Hill in Sydney's north-west.
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Apollo 17: Looking back at the last time the US landed on the moon

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientist-astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt is photographed standing next to a huge, split lunar boulder during the third Apollo 17 ...