Apollo
Defending against hypothetical moon life during Apollo 11
[Header image: Photo of the lunar lander taken during Apollo 11.] In 1969, after successfully bringing men back from landing on the moon, the astronauts, spacecraft, and all the samples from the moon surface were quarantined for 21 days. This was to account for the possibility that they were carrying hostile moon germs. Once the …
Deputies searching for missing swimmer in Apollo Beach
Deputies were searching for a missing swimmer off Apollo Beach Friday night, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office. Around 7:30 p.m. deputies with the Sheriff’s Office marine unit were dispatched to the 6000 block of Surfside Boulevard at the Apollo Beach Nature Preserve. An adult male and a child were swept away by the …
India covid death toll reaches 200K; Melbourne woman sexually assaulted in Brunswick; 2 NSW men die after vaccine; Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins dies
India’s coronavirus death toll soared through 200,000 this morning with a wave of new cases swamping hospitals and sending desperate families off to scour the capital for oxygen and medicine. The vast south Asian nation of 1.3 billion is fighting a major surge of 360,000 new infections – a global daily record – and reported …
Golf on the moon: Apollo 14 50th anniversary images prove how far Alan Shepard hit ball
This image consists of six photographs taken from the Lunar Module, enhanced and stitched into a single panorama to show the landing scene, along with the location from where Shepard hit the balls Fifty years ago this week, Alan Shepard famously hit two golf balls on the Moon. The first he shanked into a crater. …
Global Medical Education Market by Trends, Dynamic Innovation in Technology and Key Players| Apollo Hospitals, TACT Academy for Clinical Training, Zimmer Institute, Olympus, Gundersen Health System, GE Healthcare, Medical Training College, …, and More?
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Apollo 13: The silence in the blackout from those who were there
As the Apollo 13 crew re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere there was a blackout period where they couldn’t communicate with mission control. The blackout period was supposed to last three minutes, but it lasted 90 seconds longer, leaving those at mission control unaware if the crew were going to make it home safely. Fifty years on, …
Apollo 13: Enhanced images reveal life on stricken spacecraft
Image copyright NASA / Andy Saunders Image caption Apollo 13’s commander Jim Lovell selects music on a portable tape player while Jack Swigert naps off to the right Image enhancement techniques have been used to reveal life aboard Nasa’s stricken Apollo 13 spacecraft in unprecedented detail. Fifty years ago, the craft suffered an explosion that …
12 Technologies that Came Out of Apollo
This year, we celebrated the 50th anniversary of the greatest achievement in the history of both humankind and technology: putting men on the moon. That we did it in 1969, just eight years after President John F. Kennedy issued the challenge, spoke mightily to what is possible when a nation takes on a supreme challenge …
NASA news: Apollo can’t take us to the Moon but Elon Musk and SpaceX can | Science | News
NASA landed the first man on the Moon 50 years ago this year, on July 20, 1969. The incredible achievement of the Apollo space programme saw three men fly the world’s most powerful rocket – the Saturn V – into space. But half-a-century later, long after the Cold War space race has ended, NASA is no longer …
Making an Exact, Working Replica of the Apollo 11 Moon Camera
Four years ago, I set what seemed like an impossible goal: to make a functional Apollo 11 camera by the 50th anniversary of the moon landing. It was a crazy idea, especially with how inexperienced I was with nearly every process that would be required to do so. I would need to build a workshop …
