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Apollo 11 and other scientific wonders


Apollo 11 and other scientific wonders | Folger Shakespeare Library

The Folger Shakespeare Library currently has on display a remarkable relic of that Apollo 11 journey: a sheet from the Apollo 11 flight plan.

The Scientific Legacy of the Apollo 11 Mission

The Passive Seismic Experiment contained seismometers to measure moonquakes or effects of meteoroid and other impacts on the Moon. The Laser ...

The Amazing Handmade Tech That Powered Apollo 11's Moon ...

On the 50th anniversary of the historic moon landing, this documentary unearths lost tapes of the Apollo 11 astronauts, and explores the dangers ...

Apollo: How Moon missions changed the modern world - BBC

It's impossible to say if Hubble – and its vast scientific achievements – would have existed without the Apollo Moon landing programme. Apollo ...

One Small Step Back in Time: Relive the Wonder of Apollo 11

Six hours later, Armstrong became the first person to step onto the lunar surface. After 19 minutes, he was followed by Aldrin. Scientific American looks back ...

42 Inventions From Apollo Program - Apollo11Space

Moore's famous law about the accelerating speed of computing power. We can only wonder what innovations from the effort to send people to other planets will ...

How the moon landing changed the world - MQ Lighthouse

The Apollo missions were a turning point for planetary science ... the samples have powered 50 years of science and continue to be worked on ...

Ten Scientific Discoveries from the Apollo Missions

However, the Apollo missions contributed more than putting humans on the Moon, it also produced a lot of new scientific data and discoveries ...

Apollo 11 at 50: How the moon landing changed the world

The six missions that landed on the moon brought back 842 pounds of rocks, core samples, and dust, and set up science experiments that are still ...

Moon Exploration - NASA Science

In 1966, Luna 9 achieved the first soft landing and in 1969, the U.S.'s Apollo 11 achieved the first human landing. In the decades since, many nations have ...

Apollo 11: For all Mankind | NASA+

Original Mission Video as aired in July 1969 depicting the Apollo 11 astronauts conducting several tasks during extravehicular activity (EVA) ...

Apollo | History, Missions, Significance, & Facts | Britannica

Apollo 10 journeyed to lunar orbit and tested the LM to within 15.2 km (9.4 miles) of the Moon's surface. Apollo 11, in July 1969, climaxed the ...

How the moon landing changed the world - Cosmos Magazine

The Apollo missions were a turning point for planetary science. Previously accessible only by astronomy, planetary bodies were now accessible to ...

Is Apollo 11 the most remarkable scientific achievement? - Quora

There was little or no new science that went into Apollo 11. · It was a remarkable TECHNOLOGICAL/ENGINEERING achievement - to be sure - but I ...

The Original Moon Shot | EarthDate

Apollo 11 finally achieved Kennedy's goal of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth.

The Moon: Before We Knew | National Air and Space Museum

The Moon wasn't understood as well as we might have hoped as NASA moved towards the (safe) arrival of Apollo 11. ... other research tools.

Neil Armstrong Talks About The First Moon Walk - NPR

On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin E. ... other useful information. I felt the potential gain was worth the ...

Twenty People Who Made Apollo Happen - Smithsonian Magazine

The first person to see the Apollo 11 astronauts after their Pacific splashdown—the first to welcome visitors back from another world—was 20-year-old Navy “ ...

Lunar Odyssey: The Scientific Wonders of Apollo 11 Technology ...

Chapters transport readers from the early dreams and challenges of lunar exploration to the awe-inspiring Saturn V rocket's engineering marvel.

The Apollo 11 moon landing was a distraction from America's ...

To say so would be easy, and you might mention the camp and artificiality shot through all things Apollo – the telescopic arm designed to hold ...


Frankenstein

Novel by Mary Shelley https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSOMyKdErEFh7EkrIgOQqvoF-oqjrfs13H61kZ7uN2wp1krQQOb

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 Gothic novel written by English author Mary Shelley. Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment.

The War of the Worlds

Novel by H. G. Wells https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSUAwbr7lNnPjPTe103tg3OjhPgKcMBBugF4gcdgBSFNse68-bR

The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells. It was written between 1895 and 1897, and serialised in Pearson's Magazine in the UK and Cosmopolitan magazine in the US in 1897.

Around the Moon

Novel by Jules Verne https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTvv_YYQr-XDolP4gbSGkwyOCbpIS6jXQMHyJHQZUame4nQsqxY

Around the Moon, also translated as Circling the Moon and All Around the Moon, is the sequel to Jules Verne's 1865 novel, From the Earth to the Moon. It is a science fiction tale which continues the trip to the Moon that was only begun in the first novel.