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Of the thousands of pictures ... lunar module like a kangaroo joey in an onboard compartment. On the way to the moon, the petals of that compartment would open and the lander would be extracted ...
If you’d like to see what goes into making a 1/3-scale Apollo 11 Lunar Module, [Plasanator]’s photos ... It’s pretty simple stuff, but livens things up a lot. Bright red lighting for the ...
Command/Service Modules and the Lunar Module are shown docked with Astronaut David Scott standing up during the extravehicular activity (EVA) on the fourth day of the Apollo 9 earth-orbital mission.
The first manned mission to the moon, Apollo 11, launched on July 16, 1969. The crew of NASA's Apollo 11 mission, from left, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, Michael Collins, and Neil Armstrong, pose with a ...
The Apollo Lunar Module, or LM. "The guys who dreamed up this ugly flying vehicle are my heroes." Six Apollo landers, including Dave Scott's Falcon, are now on the moon, having transported ...
In his visor you can see reflected Neil Armstrong and the Lunar Module. Mankind's first triumphant step off this world. On 20 July 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became ...
Audio clip: Charlie Brown was selected by the astronauts as the codename for the Apollo 10 command module and his friend Snoopy was the call sign for the lunar module. Mosher: NASA launched 10 of ...
The Lunar Electric ... walkway at the Apollo lunar module, the astronauts’ home on missions to the moon in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. Inside, the crew would suit up—a process that ...