Before Apollo astronauts set foot upon the moon, much remained unknown about the lunar surface. While most scientists ...

Before Apollo astronauts set foot upon the Moon, much remained unknown about the lunar surface. While most scientists ...

Armstrong's shadow can be seen on the lunar soil of the Sea of Tranquility, which stretches to the horizon just a mile and a half away. With no atmosphere to block them, the Sun's glare and the ...

Before the Apollo 11 mission landed on the moon, President Richard Nixon ... As you talk to us from the Sea of Tranquility, it inspires us to redouble our efforts to bring peace and tranquility ...

Mining the moon to extract its resources is a critical ... Ilmenite makes up as much as 20% of the volume of some rocks in the Sea of Tranquility, where the Apollo astronauts landed and collected ...

They had left for the moon four days earlier, and now, two of them were preparing to descend from lunar orbit and land in the Sea of Tranquility on the lunar module. Only those two could ever say ...

O'Leary argues that legacy belongs to all humanity, from the first robotic spacecraft, Luna 2, put there by the former Soviet Union in 1959, to the first moonwalk by two American astronauts at ...

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Commander Neil Armstrong chose the landing spot of Apollo 11’s Lunar Module Eagle on the moon while flying the module over the Sea of Tranquility as he desperately searched for a safe and smooth ...