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88-year-old Apollo 16 astronaut touts the privatization of space
Now 88 years old, Charles Duke is a retired general fighter pilot, test pilot and astronaut, was the lunar module pilot on Apollo 16, and the youngest ... burgeoning low-earth-orbit economy.
'Earth to Space' art festival set to launch at Kennedy Center this week
A nearly month-long mission is ready to lift off, with preparations being made at the Kennedy Center. To be clear, not NASA's ...
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20 Facts About the Apollo Space Missions That Most Americans Don't Know
The Apollo program is arguably the most famous achievement of the United States regime, but how much do you really know about ...
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Earth's atmosphere is so big the moon flies through it
Hydrogen absorbs and re-emits sunlight in ultraviolet light, though, so Apollo 16 astronauts were able to photograph Earth's tenuous hydrogen cloud with ultraviolet-light-sensitive film during ...
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Apollo, space shuttle astronauts become literal faces of moonbound payload
Apollo 16 astronaut Charlie Duke took this photo of ... the ability to send data up to what Chris Stott calls “Earth’s largest satellite.” It transmitted a copy of the U.S. Declaration ...
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The Apollo Missions
Early Apollo Missions: Earth Orbit Apollo missions flew unmanned ... John Young, Ken Mattingly and Charlie Duke of Apollo 16 and Gene Cernan, Ron Evans and Harrison Schmitt of Apollo 17 traveled ...