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Apollo Astronauts Urge Congress To Bring Back The Space Shuttles

September 24, 2011

Former astronaut Neil Armstrong, commander of Apollo 11, and the first man to walk on the moon, joined with other Apollo astronauts Thursday in asking Congress to take the shuttle fleet ouf of its recent retirement.

With the US desperately seeking a way to get astronauts back in space famed moonwalkers Neil Armstrong and Gene Cernan told Congress Thursday take NASA’s space shuttle fleet out of retirement. Without a way to launch astronauts into low-Earth orbit, the United States risks losing its global leadership in space to other nations such as Russia and China. Developing that access should be a top priority for NASA and the country, with other space exploration goals and capabilities following afterward. The recently retired shuttles provide one ready-made answer, according to Cernan, who commanded NASA’s Apollo 17 mission in 1972...

NASA Scientists Discover Lunar Watershed

May 26, 2011

By Michael Muracco

Orange lunar soil collected by Apollo 17 points at a much wetter Moon. Credit: NASA.

A team of NASA-funded researchers has measured for the first time water from the moon in the form of tiny globules of molten rock, which have turned to glass-like material trapped within crystals. Data from these newly-discovered lunar melt inclusions indicate the water content of lunar magma is 100 times higher than previous studies suggested. The inclusions were found in lunar sample 74220, the famous high-titanium “orange glass soil” of volcanic origin collected during the Apollo 17 mission in 1972. The scientific team used a state-of-the-art ion microprobe instrument to measure the water content of the inclusions, which were...

Was NASA Hiding a Secret About the Apollo 12 Mission?

May 8, 2011

By Michael Muracco

Apollo 12 was launched at 11:22:00 a.m. EST on November 14, 1969. The mission plan called for a landing in the Oceanus Procellarum -Ocean of Storms-area.

Did NASA have a secret about the Apollo 12 mission? A team of researchers have located and reviewed NASA’s archived Apollo-era 16 millimeter film –and have come up with a definitive answer to the persistent claim in both the press and on the Web that a microbe survived 2.5 years on the moon. Apollo 12 was launched at 11:22:00 a.m. EST on November 14, 1969. The mission plan called for a landing in the Oceanus Procellarum -Ocean of Storms-area. This site was near the Surveyor III and other earlier unmanned missions to the moon. It landed there almost five...

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Apollo

Apollo Astronauts Urge Congress To Bring Back The Space Shuttles

NASA Scientists Discover Lunar Watershed

Was NASA Hiding a Secret About the Apollo 12 Mission?

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