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- The Moon reflects light from the Sun and that is why we can see it. It is not a source of light but acts like a mirror. As it orbits the Earth, we see the Moon from different angles each night. It appears to change shape as we see different parts of the surface lit up. These shapes are called the phases of the Moon.
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Sep 7, 2023 · And as our closest celestial neighbor, the Moon also holds secrets that can help us better understand our own planet and solar system. So, let’s learn more about our familiar yet alien Moon,...
- There Were Plans to Abandon The Astronauts on The Moon
- The Moon Smells
- It Became A Race Issue
- The Crew Had to Sign Customs Declarations When Returning to The Us
- The Flag Was Accidentally Knocked Over
- One of The Astronauts Believed in Aliens
- The Original Tapes of The Apollo 11 Landings Are Missing
- The Apollo 17 Rover Was Repaired with Duct Tape
- The Longest Standing Flag on The Moon Is A Union Flag
- The Cia Was Involved in The Apollo Programme
For the Apollo 11 mission a speech had been prepared for President Nixon titled "In the Event of Moon Disaster" to be read on television in case the astronauts were stranded on the moon. According to the plans for the - fortunately unfulfilled eventuality - Mission Control was to stop communicating with the astronauts. The president would have tele...
Jack Schmitt, the last man to ever walk on the moon as part of the Apollo 17 mission, reported that "everyone's instant impression of the smell was that of spent gunpowder". "Not that it was 'metallic' or 'acrid'. Spent gunpowder smell probably was much more implanted in our memories than other comparable odours," he added. It has since been sugges...
Race and class were tightly intertwined topics in America in the 60s and 70s, especially when it came to the motivations and concerns of the civil rights movement. Two years after the murder of Dr Martin Luther King in 1968 and a year after the 1969 moon landing, poet and activist Gil Scott-Heron released his response to Armstrong's famous claim th...
The laws of nature proved surmountable to the Apollo 11 crew, but nothing gets past US Customs - the three astronauts had to declare that they were importing moon rock and moon dust samples. Well, they didn't really have to. NASA officials have stated that it was a bit of a little joke between the agencies - but the declaration is completely authen...
As the Eagle lander lifted up from the surface of the moon the exhaust from its engine caused the American flag to topple over - although not before Armstrong snapped a picture of it. All of the subsequent Apollo missions planted the flag much further from the landing module. Contrary to suggestions that the solar wind helped keep the flags upright...
Edgar Mitchell, the lunar module pilot for Apollo 14, publicly stated he was personally 90% sure that many reports of unidentified flying objects, or UFOs, "belong to visitors from other planets". He suggested that he had met officials from foreign countries who had personal encounters with alien beings, and suggested that governments were covering...
The original tapes of the Apollo 11 moon landing have been missing for decades, alongside hundreds of boxes of magnetic tape holding Apollo programme data. This, of course, has encouraged conspiracy theorists - with little evidence supporting any claims that the tapes were stolen by the Soviets, or destroyed because they contained evidence the land...
NASA is pretty high-tech. Getting to the moon is literally rocket science. But it took a bit of salt-of-the-Earth graft to fix the Apollo 17 rover on 11 December 1972. Astronauts Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt, incidentally the last men to walk on the moon, landed the lunar module Challenger in a lunar valley chosen for the diversity of the geologica...
Technically - and it is very much a technicality - the longest standing flag on the lunar surface is a British flag. That's according to Keith Wright, a British engineer who worked on some of the experiments of the Apollo 11 mission. Mr Wright told a BBC show that when his team was working on the experiments, Armstrong and Aldrin came to the Kenned...
Conspiracy theories alleging that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) manufactured the moon landings to embarrass Soviet Russia are completely accurate, they just fail to credit NASA for actually pulling it off. In fact the Apollo 8 mission was effectively commissioned by the CIA for propaganda purposes. The CIA discovered that the Soviet space p...
The Moon makes a complete orbit around Earth in 27 Earth days and rotates or spins at that same rate, or in that same amount of time. Because Earth is moving as well – rotating on its axis as it orbits the Sun – from our perspective, the Moon appears to orbit us every 29 days.
Jul 28, 2021 · Well, here are five things to know about the Moon that you can share with others when you're gazing up at our natural satellite. Looking for some quick facts to impress others when you're out enjoying a moonlit night?
Jun 24, 2011 · The moon is "tidally locked" to Earth, meaning only one hemisphere faces us. We know that side well, with its dark regions called maria, or "seas," of cooled magma.
Everything you've ever wanted to know about the Moon. The Moon is Earth’s most familiar companion, the closest astronomical object to the Earth. No other planet has a satellite as large in comparison to its own size.
May 24, 2022 · The Moon is a rocky object, it is a geologist’s paradise. HOST PADI BOYD: From ancient astronomers spotting lunar details through a telescope in 1609, to astronauts setting foot on the surface with the Apollo 11 mission in 1969, we’ve been studying the mysteries of the Moon from many vantage points.
