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Category Archives: Space
The trip to the Moon
Apollo 11 took off on July 16, 1969. The journey was a few times around the Earth, a quarter of a million miles to the Moon, landing and then back. Most of the mission had been done before, just not … Continue reading
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Apollo 11
We all remember the so-called Apollo 1 fire and the deaths of three astronauts. It seemed that that would kick NASA backwards so far as to possibly fail in its mission, but, as we know, it didn’t. Apollo 8 was … Continue reading
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Moon coverage
It’s great to see the proposed coverage on space events on TV. I can’t speak for all countries, but I know that Discovery in the USA is giving a lot of broadcast hours over to it. Here in the UK, … Continue reading
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