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5 days ago · The first human, Yuri Gagarin, orbited Earth in 1961, pushing the U.S. to focus on lunar missions. The Apollo program was born, aiming to land a man on the moon and return him safely to Earth. Public vs. Secret Missions. The Apollo missions captivated public imagination, culminating in Apollo 11's historic 1969 moon landing.
2 days ago · Buzz Aldrin ( / ˈɔːldrɪn /; born Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr.; January 20, 1930) is an American former astronaut, engineer and fighter pilot. He made three spacewalks as pilot of the 1966 Gemini 12 mission, and was the Lunar Module Eagle pilot on the 1969 Apollo 11 mission.
5 days ago · The Apollo 17 Lunar Module (LM) "Challenger" was the sixth and last lunar lander in the Apollo program. It carried two astronauts, Commander Eugene A. Cernan and LM pilot Harrison H. Schmitt, the eleventh and twelfth men to walk on the Moon.
3 days ago · Apollo 17 was the sixth and last Apollo mission in which humans walked on the lunar surface. On 11 December 1972 two astronauts (Commander Eugene A. Cernan and LM pilot Harrison H. Schmitt, the first scientist on the Moon) landed in the Taurus-Littrow region of the Moon in the Lunar Module (LM) while the Command and Service Module ...
1 day ago · Sibrel, the creator of several documentaries alleging that the Moon landings never happened, shoved a Bible at Aldrin and demanded he swear on it that he wasn’t lying about walking on the Moon...
1 day ago · chernobyl the untold story of the world's greatest nuclear disaster. he lives in new york city. in conversation tonight, we have our good friend of books and books, mr. michael grunwald. he's a journalist and author who writes about public policy and national politics. he worked for the boston globe, the washington post and time. he's presently a senior writer for politico. he's the author of ...
4 days ago · Six missions landed humans on the Moon, beginning with Apollo 11 in July 1969, during which Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the Moon. Apollo 13 was intended to land; however, it was restricted to a flyby due to a malfunction aboard the spacecraft. [4]
