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[60] [61] Comparison of the original 16 mm Apollo 17 LM camera footage during ascent to the 2011 LRO photos of the landing site show an almost exact match of the rover tracks. [62] Further imaging in 2012 shows the shadows cast by the flags planted by the astronauts on all Apollo landing sites.
Armstrong pilots the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle and lands on the Moon, July 20, 1969, creating Tranquility Base. Armstrong named the site at 20:17:58 UTC, approximately 18 seconds after his and Aldrin's successful landing, as he announced:
The G-type mission, Apollo 11, performed the first lunar landing, the central goal of the program. The initial A–G [ 11 ] [ 14 ] list was expanded to include later mission types: [ 1 ] : 466 H-type missions—Apollo 12, 13 (planned) and 14—would perform precision landings, and J-type missions—Apollo 15, 16 and 17—would perform thorough ...
Atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, the Athena lander got off the ground Wednesday, Feb. 26 from the Kennedy Space Center on the historic launch pad 39A – the site of NASA's Apollo moon mission launches.
Flying above the far side of the moon in a circular 62-mile-high orbit, the squat lander fired its main engine at 2:31 a.m. EST, kicking off a white-knuckle 63-minute descent to the landing site ...
Blue Ghost hitched a ride Jan. 15 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket for a launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on the historic launch pad 39A – the site of the space agency's Apollo ...
The Apollo 17 project, which Feist began in 2009 as a part-time hobby and launched six years later [3] was the first real-time site published. It includes raw audio from the onboard voice and air-to-ground communication channels in Mission Control that had been released by NASA, and film that had been collected by archivist Stephen Slater in the UK. [1]
Apollo 13 was slated to be the third landing on the moon after Apollo 8 (1968) and Apollo 12 (1969). Launched on April 11, 1970, the crew was led by commander Lovell, along with command module ...