enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Lunar plaque - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_plaque

    Lunar plaques are stainless steel commemorative plaques measuring 9 by 7 + 5 ⁄ 8 inches (22.9 by 19.4 cm) attached to the ladders on the descent stages of the United States Apollo Lunar Modules flown on lunar landing missions Apollo 11 through Apollo 17, to be left permanently on the lunar surface.

  3. Apollo 11 lunar sample display - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11_lunar_sample_display

    At the request of Nixon, NASA had about 250 presentation plaques made following Apollo 11 in 1969. Each included about four rice-sized particles of Moon dust from the mission totaling about 50 mg. [1] [2] The Apollo 11 lunar sample display has an acrylic plastic button containing the Moon dust mounted with the recipient's country or state flag that had been to the Moon and back.

  4. Lunar sample displays - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_sample_displays

    The lunar sample displays are two commemorative plaques consisting of small fragments of Moon specimen brought back by the astronauts of the Apollo 11 and Apollo 17 lunar missions. The plaques and Moon rocks were given as goodwill gifts in 1970 and 1973 to the people of 135 countries, the 50 states of the United States and some of its overseas ...

  5. Apollo 11 - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11

    Apollo 11 was a spaceflight conducted from July 16 to July 24, 1969 by the United States and launched by NASA. ... The plaque left on the ladder of Eagle.

  6. Apollo 11 goodwill messages - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11_goodwill_messages

    The silicon disc with goodwill messages left on the Moon by Apollo 11 astronauts. The Apollo 11 goodwill messages are statements from leaders of 73 countries around the world on a disc about the size of a 50-cent piece made of silicon that was left on the Moon in 1969 by the Apollo 11 astronauts.

  7. List of Apollo lunar sample displays - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Apollo_lunar...

    The Apollo 11 mission to the surface of the Moon returned a few dozen pounds/kilos of lunar material (mainly rock and dust), and the US put about 0.05 grams in small display cases and gave one apiece to the 50 U.S. states, to the nations of the world, and to political entities like the U.S. territories under administration. [1]

  8. California lunar sample displays - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_lunar_sample...

    At the request of Nixon, NASA had about 250 presentation plaques made following Apollo 11 in 1969. Each included about four rice-sized particles of Moon dust from the mission totaling about 50 mg. [1] [2] The Apollo 11 lunar sample display has an acrylic plastic button containing the Moon dust mounted with the recipient's country or state flag that had been to the Moon and back.

  9. Alaska lunar sample displays - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_lunar_sample_displays

    Plaques on the California Apollo 11 lunar sample display, similar to the display in Alaska. The Alaska lunar sample displays are two commemorative plaques consisting of small fragments of Moon specimen brought back with the Apollo 11 and Apollo 17 lunar missions and given in the 1970s to the people of the state of Alaska by United States President Richard Nixon as goodwill gifts.