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Apollo Astronauts Left American Flags, Boots and Even Poop on the Moon. Here's Why These Artifacts Matter
During the Apollo 15 mission in 1971, astronauts David Scott and James Irwin decided to test a centuries-old proposition about gravity from the Italian mathematician Galileo Galilei.
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The Apollo Missions
Dave Scott, Al Worden and Jim Irwin were the crew of Apollo 15, the first mission to use the four-wheel-drive lunar rover. John Young, Ken Mattingly and Charlie Duke of Apollo 16 and Gene Cernan ...
Palo Alto Weekly1y
‘I want us to be known as the STEM place’: Moffett Field Museum is on a mission to modernize
Starting April 12, the museum began displaying new artifacts on loan from NASA Ames, most notably a moon rock retrieved from the Apollo 15 Mission in 1971. The outer space relic, which will be on ...
Time7y
Unseen Apollo
The missions were conceived and flown in the era ... a certain fluidity that’s visible up close, as captured by the Apollo 15 crew. Like the volcano fields on the Hawaiian island Hilo, some ...
Mission possible − parastronaut programs can make space travel more inclusive and attainable for all
Figuring out how to make spacecraft more accessible to astronauts with physical disabilities can also make them safer for ...