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Narrator: From 1962 to 1970, NASA commissioned Grumman Aircraft to build 15 space-worthy lunar modules for its Apollo program. Each one was was labeled Lunar Modules 1 through 15 and cost around $ ...

Only in hindsight did NASA realize that the fire had been a tragedy waiting to happen. After Apollo 1, the space program continued with a renewed purpose and diligence. Frank Borman, the ...

On October 11, 1968, NASA redefined the phrase “nothing is ... After the unfortunate incident of the Apollo 1 fire, the Apollo 7 crew lacked confidence in the staff at the California plant ...

After three weeks aboard Salyut 1 the Soyuz 11 crew returned to ... Alongside the lunar program, NASA had planned the Apollo Applications Programme (AAP) to take advantage of hardware and ...

Fifty years on, the Apollo Moon programme is probably still ... to four lesser-known facts about the history-making mission. 1. Saturn V is still the largest and most powerful rocket ever built ...

At the end of the moon walk, after exposing the SWC to the Sun for about 1 hr 17 min, Buzz will roll up the foil and pack it in a bag for analysis back on Earth.","credit":"Neil Armstrong—NASA ...

Apollo 10 is a largely unsung mission, but it did enable NASA to reach that goal ... landmarks along an imaginary line dubbed U.S. 1, in honor of the famed north-south American highway that ...

The biggest problem NASA will have to tackle is best explained by Einstein's theories of relativity. Basically, 1 second on Earth is slightly faster than 1 second on the moon, due to differences ...

Only in hindsight did NASA realize that the fire had been a tragedy waiting to happen. After Apollo 1, the space program continued with a renewed purpose and diligence. Frank Borman, the ...