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5 days ago · Neil Armstrong was an American astronaut and the first person to set foot on the Moon. After joining the space program in 1962, he became the command pilot of Gemini 8, which completed the first manual space docking maneuver. He is best known for accompanying Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., to the surface of the Moon on July 20, 1969.
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5 days ago · And the end of all our exploring. Will be to arrive where we started. And know the place for the first time. Through the unknown, remembered gate. When the last of earth left to discover. Is that which was the beginning; At the source of the longest river. The voice of the hidden waterfall. And the children in the apple-tree.
5 days ago · Armstrong is probably best known as the commander of NASA’s Apollo 11 mission to the moon, during which he became the first person to set foot on the moon on July 20, 1969. While at the NASA center that now bears his name, Armstrong was actively engaged in piloting and engineering aspects of the X-15 hypersonic rocket plane program from its inception.
6 days ago · Two astronauts are stuck in space because Boeing's Starliner can't make the journey back to Earth. Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Sunita "Suni" Williams blasted off on 5 June in Starliner's first ...
3 days ago · Chang'e 4 ( / tʃɑːŋˈə /; Chinese: 嫦娥四号; pinyin: Cháng'é Sìhào; lit. ' Chang'e No. 4') is a robotic spacecraft mission in the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program of the CNSA. China achieved humanity's first soft landing on the far side of the Moon with its touchdown on 3 January 2019. [12] [13]
21 hours ago · One of America's biggest conspiracies is being unraveled on the big screen. Dating back to 2022, Apple Studios had been developing a movie set on the backdrop of the 1960s space race between the ...
5 days ago · Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun ( US: / ˌvɜːrnər vɒn ˈbraʊn / VUR-nər von BROWN, German: [ˌvɛʁnheːɐ̯ fɔn ˈbʁaʊ̯n]; 23 March 1912 – 16 June 1977) was a German-American aerospace engineer [3] and space architect. He was a member of the Nazi Party and Allgemeine SS, the leading figure in the development of rocket ...
