Tag: Apollo
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48 years after Apollo 11 moon landing, lunar dust bag sells for $1.8 million
A view from the Apollo 11 lunar module shows mission commander Neil Armstrong collecting a sample of lunar dust and rocks. At his feet is the handle for the sample collection tool. (NASA Photo / Andy Chaikin / CollectSpace.com) The 48th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing was payday for a Chicago-area lawyer who…
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Opportunity rover’s roll on Mars eerily echoes Apollo 16’s stroll on the moon
NASA’s Opportunity rover snapped a picture of its own tread marks as it passed by Orion Crater on Mars. (NASA / JPL-Caltech / Cornell / ASU) Forty-five years after the astronauts of Apollo 16 rode out on a rover to look over a crater on the moon, NASA’s Opportunity rover looked over a crater on…
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Jeff Bezos lays out his vision for city on the moon, complete with robots
Artist’s concept shows Blue Origin’s Blue Moon lander on the lunar surface. (Blue Origin Illustration) SpaceX billionaire Elon Musk may have his heart set on building a city on Mars, but Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ space vision looks closer to home. He’s gazing at the moon. “I think we should build a permanent human settlement…
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Video: Watch Amazon’s Jeff Bezos talk with kids about Apollo’s space legacy – and share life lessons
Jeff Bezos takes questions from kids at the Museum of Flight. (GeekWire Photo / Chelsey Ballarte) Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos came to Seattle’s Museum of Flight today to talk with students about the decades-old rocket engines he rescued from the sea – but he stayed to share some down-to-earth lessons for life on this planet. “Be proud,…
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Apollo moon rocket engines finally fill a place of honor at Museum of Flight
David Concannon, who put together a team to find components from the F-1 rocket engines that sent NASA astronauts on their way to the moon, recounts the adventure at the Museum of Flight with the recovered components in the background. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) Almost 50 years after they were fired up, rocket engines that…
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Museum of Flight gets intact moon rocket engine to go with beat-up Apollo artifacts
An Apollo-era F-1 rocket engine arrives on a flatbed truck. (Museum of Flight Photo) When historic rocket engine parts from the Apollo moon missions go on display in May in Seattle, museumgoers will be able to compare them with an intact F-1 engine. The 50-year-old, 18.5-foot-tall engine arrived at one of the Museum of Flight’s…
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50 years after Apollo 1 fire, NASA exhibits fatal artifacts in Florida for the first time
Kennedy Space Center’s “Ad Astra Per Aspera” exhibit honors Apollo 1 astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee, who died in a launch pad fire in 1967. (NASA Photo / Kim Shiflett) Fifty years ago today, three NASA astronauts died in a launch pad fire when they couldn’t open the hatch of their Apollo…
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50 years on, reminders of Apollo 1 beckon a safer future
Fifty years ago Friday, the first – but sadly not the last – fatal spaceflight accident struck NASA when a fire claimed the lives of Virgil “Gus” Grissom, Roger Chaffee, and Ed White during a training exercise at Launch Complex 34. The accident, a major setback for the struggling Apollo program, ushered in the first…
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Last man to walk on the moon, Gene Cernan, leaves behind a dying wish
Apollo 17’s Gene Cernan wears a spacesuit smeared with lunar dirt in 1972. (NASA Photo) Apollo 17 commander Gene Cernan, the last human to leave footprints on the moon, passed away today – but his family says his dying wish remains to be fulfilled. “Even at the age of 82, Gene was passionate about sharing his desire…
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Get an exclusive video tour of the Museum of Flight’s Apollo moon rocket artifacts
It’s been almost a year since Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos unveiled pieces of the Saturn V rocket engines that propelled Apollo’s astronauts to the moon – and now you can watch a video guide to the goodies, courtesy of Seattle’s Museum of Flight (and GeekWire). Next spring, the decades-old artifacts will be among the highlights of…