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The Apollo 15 postal covers incident was a 1972 NASA scandal involving the astronauts of Apollo 15, who carried about 400 unauthorized postal covers into space and to the Moon's surface on the Lunar Module Falcon.
The Apollo of Gaza is a rare bronze sculpture of Magna Graecia of the Ancient Greek god Apollo found in the Gaza Strip in 2013. It was put for sale on eBay, and subsequently withdrawn and seized by police thanks to the publication of the story along with photographs by the Italian journalist Fabio Scuto on la Repubblica.
Later Apollo missions did not use SSTV. At least some of the telemetry tapes still exist from the ALSEP scientific experiments left on the Moon (which ran until 1977), according to Dr. Williams. Copies of those tapes have been found. [125] Others are looking for the missing telemetry tapes for different reasons.
More than 50 years after humans first began soft-landing spacecraft on the moon, it remains a treacherous feat with more than half of missions failing. Here’s why.
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 ...
You can find pretty much anything on eBay, but this discovery was a real surprise. 'A rare bronze statue of the Greek god Apollo has mysteriously resurfaced in the Gaza Strip, only to vanish ...
Unidentified flying objects have been reported by astronauts while in space. These sightings have been claimed as evidence for extraterrestrial life by ufologists.. Some of the alleged sightings never occurred: science fiction writer Otto Binder perpetuated a hoax claiming Apollo 11 Commander Neil Armstrong had encountered UFOs during the Apollo mission. [1]
NASA did not decide to proceed with a rover until May 1969, as Apollo 10, the dress rehearsal for the Moon landing, made its way home from lunar orbit. Boeing received the contract for three rovers on a cost-plus basis; overruns (especially in the navigation system) meant the three vehicles eventually cost a total of $40 million. These cost ...