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1. This Week in Space — Apollo-Soyuz Anniversary Edition

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   I missed posting the latest "This Week in Space" with Miles O'Brien, but it is a special edition that takes a look at the 35th anniversary of Apollo-Soyuz project with exclusive interviews, ... Wednesday, 28 July 2010

2. Why the Moon Landings Weren't Faked

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   ... that the Moon landings were faked, in a way that only British TV can! © nancy for Universe Today, 2010. | Permalink | One comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: Apollo Moon landings Feed enhanced ... Tuesday, 27 July 2010

3. Why the Moon Landings Weren't Faked

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   ... that the Moon landings were faked, in a way that only British TV can! © nancy for Universe Today, 2010. | Permalink | One comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: Apollo Moon landings Feed enhanced ... Tuesday, 27 July 2010

4. Lunar Forums and Anniversaries

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   Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter image of the Apollo 11 landing site. Credit: NASA I'm attending the NASA Lunar Science Institute's Lunar Forum at Ames Research Center in California, which will ... Tuesday, 20 July 2010

5. Celebrating Apollo 11

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   NASA and Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC) officials joined with flight controllers to celebrate the successful conclusion of the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission in the Mission Control Center. From left foreground ... Monday, 19 July 2010

6. Symbol of Cooperation

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   On July 17, 1975, Cold War rivals America and the Soviet Union met in Earth orbit as American Apollo astronauts Tom Stafford, Vance Brand and Deke Slayton docked with Soviet Soyuz cosmonauts Aleksey Leonov ... Thursday, 15 July 2010

7. Securing a Place for History

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   A piece of NASA history landed at the Glenn Research Center's Visitor Center, now located at the Great Lakes Science Center in Cleveland, Ohio. The Apollo Command Module, used for the Skylab 3 mission ... Sunday, 11 July 2010

8. Symphony of Science Goes to the Moon

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   The Symphony of Science just released their latest video; this time its the Apollo 11 Moon landing. No auto-tuning, (unlike the "singing" Carl Sagan in "A Glorious Dawn") but just ... Tuesday, 06 July 2010

9. All-American Salute

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   Astronaut John W. Young, commander of the Apollo 16 lunar landing mission, leaps from the lunar surface as he salutes the United States flag at the Descartes landing site during the first Apollo 16 extravehicular ... Thursday, 01 July 2010

10. Graphite 'Whiskers' Found in Apollo Moon Rocks

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    ...  Credit: A. Steele, et al. Long-held secrets continue to be unlocked from the Moon. Researchers taking a new look at a rock brought back by the Apollo 17 mission have discovered graphite in the form ... Thursday, 01 July 2010

11. Water Could Be Widespread in Moon's Interior

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    Moon rocks from the Apollo 11 mission. Credit: NASA A new look at Moon rocks from the Apollo missions, along with a lunar meteorite show a much higher water content in the Moon's interior than ... Monday, 14 June 2010

12. Life-size Wooden Spacecraft Sculptures

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    ...  Hennessey says he wanted to "reverse the virtualization of physical things" by creating life-size reproductions of the spacecraft such as the Voyager space probe, Apollo Lunar Rover, the Hubble ... Thursday, 10 June 2010

13. Centaur's Rocket Engine

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    ... rocket. Centaur was responsible for sending the Surveyor spacecraft on its mission to land on the moon and to explore the surface in the early stages of the Apollo Program. Image Credit: NASA ... Tuesday, 08 June 2010

14. Early NASA Vacuum Chamber Test Gone Wrong

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    ... a NASA spacesuit technician was inside vacuum chamber at the Manned Spaceflight Center (now Johnson Space Center in Houston) when his Apollo-type suit lost pressure due to an oxygen hose becoming unhooked. ... Tuesday, 08 June 2010

15. Post-Mortem Of A Comet

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    ... material samples from a comet were collected in the Stardust Mission. It was the first mission since the Apollo landings to have successfully returned extraterrestrial material for scientists to study ... Monday, 31 May 2010

16. Committee Reviews Proposed Human Spaceflight Plan

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    ... and to review issues related to the budget, cost, schedule, and potential impacts of the plan. Testimony was given by NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong, Apollo 17 Commander ... Thursday, 27 May 2010

17. Race is on for museums to host retired space shuttles

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    ... of the space shuttle program." The petitioners included Charles Duke, who walked on the moon during the Apollo 16 mission, and the first woman to walk on the Earth's natural satellite, Kathryn Sullivan. New ... Thursday, 27 May 2010

18. Retire The Shuttle on Orbit

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    ... Constellation (Apollo on steroids). I would think that if the first consideration is as it should be, crew safety, then Orion should be much safer than Shuttle. Hopefully we will also kill fewer astronauts ... Wednesday, 19 May 2010

19. Alumnus Terry Hill: Creator Of The Master Spacesuit

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    ... spacesuit design is one component of the Constellation Program, the project that aims to take humans back to the moon and, hopefully, on to Mars. "It's Apollo on steroids," Hill said. "The ultimate ... Saturday, 15 May 2010

20. Houston, We've Had a Conference...

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    ... could've been a tag line for the conference - except the "problem" in this case was not a wounded Apollo 13 spacecraft, but the puzzling and ongoing search for answers about the origin and evolution of ... Tuesday, 11 May 2010