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NASA crew systems chief Ed Smylie shows the work that he and his team did in April 1970 to jury rig a solution for scrubbing carbon dioxide from the air in the Apollo 13 lunar module. | Credit: ...
In the first edition of Apollo Frequencies, Raphael Helfand reviews avant-garde ensemble Talujon's performance of Gerard ...
An 18-karat gold version of the first watch worn on the moon has set a record for the most paid for an astronaut's timepiece.
Going back to the Moon after half a century, and then to Mars, literally means reinventing the wheel. After all, Mars is a ...
In the lunar module, which on Apollo 13 served as the crew's lifeboat, the scrubber was cylindrical. Initially, Smylie thought that the solution could be as simple as continuing to run the ...
Apollo 16 was NASA's fifth lunar landing and ... and Charlie Duke, the lunar module pilot. They lifted off from Kennedy Space Center on a Saturn V rocket and spent three days cruising to the ...
During the infamous Apollo 13 mission, he and a team of engineers in NASA’s Mission Control found the solution to the lunar module’s scrubbing system, which was starting to lose capacity to provide ...
From solar probes to deep space missions, these record-breaking human-made objects reached speeds that make bullets and jets ...
NASA still has more to learn more about how the regolith and surface will be affected when a spacecraft much larger than the Apollo lunar excursion module lands, whether it's on the moon for ...
A Plainview woman’s decade-long hiatus ends with a bold, uncensored comedy set—just months after recovering from serious ...
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 ...