Science Channel seems to be my favorite channel to watch on cable. Today, I am watching the program Moon Machines. This series surveys the contributions by the many scientists, engineers, and skilled workers who contributed to the total effort to send twelve astronauts to the Moon’s surface and fourteen other astronauts to lunar orbit. This …
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Lego Models of NASA’s Project Constellation, Orion and Altair
Legos return to the Moon! I built the following Lego models of NASA’s Project Constellation spacecraft and lunar lander when I would take breaks from my PhD exam reading schedule. The Orion spacecraft includes a detachable solid rocket booster, and it can be mated to the Altair lunar lander craft. Orion carries three minifig astronauts, …
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Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Snaps Apollo Landing Sites
Visit this site to see pictures taken by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) of the Apollo landing sites. The lunar lander descent stages can be made out, but they are very tiny in the current images. The site says that future images of the landing sites will have a higher resolution, because the LRO had …
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Apollo 11 Anniversary
This year is the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission “to land a man on the moon and return him safely to the Earth.” There is a cool new site that is recreating the launch experience in real time at wechoosethemoon.org. In more recent space news, I was hoping that the Space Shuttle Endeavour …
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