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No event better exemplified this bygone phenomenon than Apollo 11. It's estimated that 94% of American TV households tuned in to watch Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin touch down on the lunar surface.
Another highlight from the category is the “largest piece of Mars on Earth.” The Martian Meteorite, which Sotheby’s has ...
The National Air and Space Museum holds approximately 17,000 space artifacts in its collection. More than 3,500 of those stem from the historic Apollo Moon landing effort, with 400 objects related ...
The day Apollo 11 landed on the moon 40 years ago, it inspired Eddie Lee McGhee to name his newborn daughter after the lunar lander. But he didn't name her Eagle. He named her Module.
The Apollo Lunar Module (LM) was a two-stage vehicle designed by Grumman to ferry two astronauts from lunar orbit to the lunar surface and back. The upper ascent stage consisted of a pressurized crew ...
This is the Lunar Module Ascent Engine, one of the most important in the manned Apollo missions. It was used to lift up the ascent stage of the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM) from the surface of the ...
A 2.35-billion-year-old meteorite with a unique chemical signature, found in Africa in 2023, plugs a major gap in our ...
Amazingly, the samples of material from the moon retrieved by the Apollo missions are still providing new insights more than 50 years later, in this case how tiny glass beads that litter the lunar ...
This May 6th, 1968, footage from NASA shows a training vehicle used by Apollo 11 astronauts as they prepared to land the first man on the moon. In the clip, astronaut Neil Armstrong flies 200 feet ...
As Ogliore explained, each glass bead tells its own story of the moon's past. The beads—some shiny orange, some glossy black—formed when lunar volcanoes shot material from the interior to the ...