... December 13, 1998 . Blasting Off from the Moon . Credit: Apollo 16 , NASA . ... Blasting Off from the Moon . Credit: Apollo 16 , NASA . Explanation: How did the astronauts get back from the Moon ? ...
... October 13, 1996 . The Earth Also Rises . Credit: The Lunar Orbiter Project , NASA . ... The Lunar Orbiter 1 spacecraft was launched in 1966 to map the lunar surface in preparation for the Apollo moon landings ...
... APOD: 2005 November 13 - Lunation . ... During this Apollo 11 mission, Neil Armstrong (the first person to walk on the moon ... The Apollo missions demonstrated that it is possible to land humans on the Moon and ...
... 27 . Earth . Moon . -13 . Venus . -4.4 . Jupiter . ... Only the Apollo astronauts have ever seen the Earth from far enough away to perceive it as a globe. ...
... But at a distance of about 13 billion kilometers (8 billion miles) Earth would only be visible in binoculars or a small ... Tomorrow's picture: Apollo 17's Rover . < | Archive | Index | Search | ...
... The first playback of the recorded data to ground stations on Earth is scheduled for December 10-13. ... Congratulations to the Galileo Team! . Tomorrow's picture: Apollo 14 on the Moon . | Archive | Glossary | Education | ...
... Pickering's different elements for planet O were: Mean dist Period Mass Magnitude Node Incl Longitude 1908 51.9 373.5 y 2 earth's 11.5-13.4 105.13 1919 55.1 409 y 15 100 15 1928 35.23 209.2 y 0.5 earth's 12 Percival Lowell, most well known as a proponent ...
... On July 13, 1793, a young Royalist from Caen, Charlotte Corday, managed, by a clever subterfuge, to gain entry into his ... Marat can henceforth defy Apollo, Death has kissed him with her loving lips and he rests in the tranquillity of his ...
... from the few kilos of moon rocks brought back by the Apollo and Luna missions, meteorites are our only material evidence of the ... It arrived in a meteor shower 13,000 years ago. ...