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The Lunar Electric Rover is a prototype for the vehicle that ... During the first three manned missions, Apollo 11, 12 and 14, the astronauts roamed the moon’s surface on foot.
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.
After landing, Astrobotic’s rover will have just 14 days—a lunar day—to reach the Apollo 11 site and take pictures. Equipping the robot to withstand the frigid, two-week lunar night would ...
Apollo 11: Moonwalk Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong ... the first mission to use the four-wheel-drive lunar rover. John Young, Ken Mattingly and Charlie Duke of Apollo 16 and Gene Cernan ...
The set includes a displayable model version of the lunar rover module carried by Apollo ... Lego's earlier released Saturn V rocket and Apollo 11 lunar module, the LRV (set no. 42182) includes ...
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It took 400,000 people to put Apollo 11’s Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon a half-century ago. That massive workforce stretched across the U.S. and included engineers, scientists ...
One of them was Armalcolite, which was named after the three astronauts of Apollo 11. It wasn’t until May 1961 that Kennedy decided that a moon mission gave the U.S. enough time to catch up to ...
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin on the Moon. 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 ...