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Celebrating when EVs went to the Moon with a Lego Lunar Roving Vehicle build
NASA's LRV was flown on the Apollo 15, 16, and 17 missions during 1971 and 1972. It was designed to fold up and fit into the ...
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NASA Ends First Test Campaign for Its Future Moon Rover, Suited Astronauts Were on Deck
The weight of the Moon rover is expected to be around two tons (three times more than the Lunar Roving Vehicle of the Apollo program), Aside from the two astronauts it must carry, it must also be ...
On this date: NASA axes planned Apollo 20 mission
On this date, Jan. 4, 1970, NASA officially canceled the Apollo 20 mission and transferred the Saturn V rocket that would ...
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Orbiter photos show lunar modules from first 2 moon landings more than 50 years later
"Image of Apollo 11 and 12 taken by India's Moon orbiter. Disapproving Moon landing deniers," Curiosity wrote on X, along with the overhead photos that show the landing vehicles on the surface of ...
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Moon rocks from China’s Chang’e 6 mission test Apollo views on lunar magnetic field
The strength of the lunar magnetic field may have shot up about 2.8 billion years ago, a Chinese study of samples from the far side of the moon suggests. The study, published online on Thursday in ...
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You can now wear an Apollo Guidance Computer keypad as a wristwatch
or DSKY (pronounced "disk-key"), that astronauts used on the command and lunar modules. The DSKY Moonwatch is more than just a novelty timepiece; wearers can interact with it just like the Apollo ...
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NASA Apollo 11 Moon Rock Was Destroyed in a Fire, Records Reveal
NASA Thankfully, Ireland had received a second piece of lunar material in 1973, also gifted by the U.S. This sample from Apollo 17, mounted on a plaque featuring the Irish tricolor, found a more ...