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  2. Moon Machines - Wikipedia

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    Moon Machines is a Science Channel HD documentary miniseries consisting of six episodes documenting the engineering challenges of the Apollo program to land men on the Moon. It covers everything from the iconic Saturn V to the Command Module, the Lunar Module, the Space Suits, the Guidance and Control Computer, and the Lunar Rover.

  3. List of fictional elements, materials, isotopes and subatomic ...

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    Minecraft "Perhaps the biggest stroke of genius in Minecraft". [67] This red mineral serves as in-game wiring, letting players lay down logic circuitry that controls pistons, minecarts and other dynamic elements in the game. [67] It is found as ore in deep caves.

  4. Apollo Docking Mechanism - Wikipedia

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    The docking mechanism of the Apollo was a "probe and drogue" system designed to allow the Apollo Command/Service Module (CSM) to dock with the Apollo Lunar Module.The same system was later used for the Skylab 2, Skylab 3 and Skylab 4 CSMs to dock with the Skylab space station, and the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project CSM to dock with a Docking Module adapter which allowed docking with the Soyuz 19 ...

  5. Transposition, docking, and extraction - Wikipedia

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    Transposition, docking, and extraction (often abbreviated to transposition and docking) was a maneuver performed during Apollo lunar landing missions from 1969 to 1972, to withdraw the Apollo Lunar Module (LM) from its adapter housing which secured it to the Saturn V launch vehicle upper stage and protected it from the aerodynamic stresses of launch.

  6. Apollo PGNCS - Wikipedia

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    Apollo Command Module primary guidance system components Apollo Lunar Module primary guidance system components Apollo Inertial Measurement Unit. The Apollo primary guidance, navigation, and control system (PGNCS, pronounced pings) was a self-contained inertial guidance system that allowed Apollo spacecraft to carry out their missions when communications with Earth were interrupted, either as ...

  7. Unified S-band - Wikipedia

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    Apollo 15 Lunar Module and Lunar Roving Vehicle, August 1, 1971.The S-band dish antenna for the rover is visible. The Unified S-band (USB) system is a tracking and communication system developed for the Apollo program by NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).

  8. Beresheet - Wikipedia

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    Beresheet (Hebrew: בְּרֵאשִׁית, Bərēšīṯ, "In the beginning"; Book of Genesis) was a demonstrator of a small robotic lunar lander and lunar probe operated by SpaceIL and Israel Aerospace Industries.

  9. List of missions to the Moon - Wikipedia

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    Fourth attempt at lunar sample return. After reaching low Earth orbit, the fourth-stage engine failed to fire for trans-lunar injection due to control system malfunction. Spacecraft re-entered Earth's atmosphere within one orbit after launch. [68] 76: Apollo 12: Apollo 12: 14 November 1969: Saturn V: NASA: Orbiter: Success Lunar Module Intrepid ...