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Head of Eagle, vehicle that landed man on the moon
Somerville :: MA :: USA | over 2 years ago
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The odd, bulbous module with spindly legs was called the world's first true spacecraft because it could operate only in outer space. The margins for error were so tiny that Armstrong had only 20 seconds of fuel left after changing landing sites
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John Gavin, Who Helped Put First Man on Moon, Dies at 90
Amherst :: MA :: USA | over 2 years ago
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Gavin Jr., who rode herd over the immensely complex design, construction and testing of the first vehicle to visit the moon a task that included anticipating 400 different landing surfaces, from ice to boulders to dust to potholes died on Saturday in
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A mini Cosmosphere
Stockholm :: Sweden | over 2 years ago
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In a warehouse west of downtown Hutchinson, three employees of Spaceworks are putting the finishing touches on a full-scale replica of an Apollo command module and another replica of the forward cockpit of a lunar ascent stage. Before the end of the
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NASA Relaunches Astronaut Jim Lovell To 'Finish The Job'
Cape Canaveral :: FL :: USA | over 2 years ago
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Monday plans to launch former astronaut Jim Lovell back into space to complete the task he was contracted to perform 40 years ago. "Yes, he has been retired for some time now, and yes, he seemed quite surprised when we visited him at his home, but
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Director Howard lauded here for lustrous career
Chicago :: IL :: USA | almost 3 years ago
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Staff Reporter/abarrett@suntimes.com The vibe at Saturday night's Chicago International Film Festival was as laid-back and gracious as the star being honored: the famously humble director Ron Howard. The Academy Award winner took a break from filming
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NASA hero to give free talk in San Diego
San Diego :: CA :: USA | 3 years ago
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Apollo 13 to safely return to Earth after part of their spacecraft exploded in 1970, will give a public talk at the San Diego Air & Space Museum in Balboa Park on Wednesday, May 12, starting about 6 p.m. You must pay admission to enter the museum,
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Wendt, engineer at Cape Canaveral, dies at 86
Merritt Island :: FL :: USA | 3 years ago
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Fla. (AP) — Guenter Wendt, the last man many U.S. astronauts saw before lift off, has died at his Florida home of complications from congestive heart failure. He was 86. Wendt, an engineer who became known as the pad leader and
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A war on guns and planes
Karāchi :: Pakistan | 3 years ago
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Only, in this case, the one at the Air Force Officers Mess is a nightmarishly giant version of the badly-everything model. Without expert guidance and education it is difficult to appreciate these sorts of things that lurk in the public domain. Truth
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Living space history
Hutchinson :: KS :: USA | 3 years ago
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Hutchinson's Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center proved once again it knows how to fulfill its mission as a living history museum. Long a tourism jewel in Hutchinson's crown, the Cosmosphere for many years has been a great space museum. Just the fact
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Astronauts reunite with Apollo 13 capsule at Cosmosphere
Hutchinson :: KS :: USA | 3 years ago
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It had been 40 years to the day since Fred Haise had seen the Apollo 13 space capsule. The last time was "when I crawled out of it in the South Pacific," said Haise, one of the three astronauts who survived the explosion in space that scuttled the
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