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Science in Orbit During Apollo


Science in Orbit During Apollo | National Air and Space Museum

Experimenting in orbit helped determine things such as the composition of the lunar surface, but required special tools.

Apollo | Missions - NASA Astrobiology

The mission (along with the additional Apollo missions that followed) returned valuable scientific data from the Moon for astrobiologists on Earth. Apollo 11, ...

What We Learned - NASA

Some of the earliest beneficiaries of Apollo research were, ironically, Earth scientists. The Apollo 7 and 9 missions, which stayed in Earth orbit, took ...

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 ...

The Scientific Legacy of the Apollo 11 Mission

While on the Moon's surface, Aldrin deployed instruments to measure the distance from the Moon to the Earth, as well as to analyze the chemical ...

Apollo 11 Was a Voyage of Discovery About Our Solar System

Decades after the samples arrived on Earth, scientists also reanalyzed some Apollo moon rocks, including some from Apollo 11, and discovered ...

How did we get to the Moon? - Institute of Physics

Once Apollo 11 reached the Moon, the spacecraft slid into orbit. On its third circle, Collins aboard Columbia watched as Armstrong and Aldrin undocked and began ...

Scientific Discoveries from the Apollo 11 Mission

... trove of evidence of how the Moon formed: Planetary Science Research Discoveries (PSRD) educational on-line space science magazine.

Physics from the Moon

These instruments—and others brought by subsequent Apollo missions—remained on the Moon long after the humans left. They provided a number of ...

How Landing on the Moon Changed Our World - State of the Planet

It was an enormous expansion of our presence in space that was enabled by a healthy NASA built up to conduct the Apollo missions but an agency ...

The scientific legacy of the Apollo program | Physics Today

Another advance with the J missions was addition of the Scientific Instrument Module (SIM) on the Endeavor. It enabled systematic orbital remote ...

Thoughts on Apollo 11 - Ask An Earth and Space Scientist |

Listen to various ASU scientists discuss their feelings on and importance of the Apollo 11 mission and moon landing.

The technology it took to get to the Moon | Science Museum

Finally, the lunar module—stored in protective casing during the launch—would be the part of the spacecraft to actually land on the Moon. The ...

Apollo: How Moon missions changed the modern world - BBC

The Apollo programme took humanity to the Moon but also changed the face of technology back here on Earth.

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

The descent stage was left on the Moon, and the astronauts returned to the CSM in the ascent stage, which was discarded in lunar orbit. The LM ...

Apollo 11 | The Planetary Society

Science and engineering experiments · Passive Seismic Experiment (PSE): A seismometer that failed after 21 days, but provided useful initial data on lunar ...

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

The Apollo space capsules relied on parachutes to slow their fall back to earth after going to the moon, and the three main parachutes were huge ...

Apollo program - Wikipedia

The Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the United States human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space ...

Apollo 15 Command Module - National Museum of the USAF

Apollo 15 focused mainly on lunar science, and was the first mission to use a lunar rover vehicle. The crew spent four days traveling to the moon, then Scott ...

From the Moon to your living room: the Apollo 11 broadcast

Moon Landings, BBC Archive · How NASA Broadcast Neil Armstrong Live from the Moon, Popular Science · The space race to the Moon, Science Museum ...