The Apollo program is arguably the most famous achievement of the United States regime, but how much do you really know about ...
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.
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 ...
including a family photo that Apollo 16 astronaut Charlie Duke left on the lunar surface. The images were handpicked by co-writer Chris Riley, a space documentarian. "They're pristine, clear ...
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 ...
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 ...
July 16: Apollo 11 begins its mission to the moon ... They then rendezvous with Michael Collins in the command module for the return to Earth. July 24: Apollo 11 returns to earth safely.