On August 2, 1971, during the third EVA (Extravehicular activity) of Apollo 15 (see notes 1) mission, commander David Scott drove the rover away from Lunar Module, where the television camera could be used to observe the lunar liftoff. Then he left a small aluminum statuette called “Fallen Astronaut” next to the rover, which commemorates those […]
Category Archives: Moon Landing
NASA, SpaceX, and Blue Origin’s Rockets comparison
Tech Insider published a video titled “How NASA, SpaceX, and Blue Origin’s Monster Rockets Compare”. Still, the old Saturn V, which was used by NASA between 1967 and 1973 and took humans to the Moon, is the biggest and strongest rocket ever built. But new rockets are coming and that’s finally about the change. Here […]
Russia Plans To Build a Luxury Hotel on the ISS
Russian Federation’s space agency Roscosmos (full name: Roscosmos State Corporation for Space Activities) plans to build a luxury hotel attached to the International Space Station (ISS). The Russian state’s company planning to complete the hotel by 2021. One week (or two weeks, not clear) accommodations will cost $40 million per person. A spacewalk option, with […]
Apollo 17, The Last Mission to the Moon in Real Time
For the 45th anniversary of the Apollo 17 lunar landing mission, NASA has published a website called “Apollo 17 in Real-time. The Last Mission to the Moon – A real-time journey through the Apollo 17 mission”. You can see the events in real-time either joining at 1 minute to the launch or in-progress. On the website apollo17.org, […]
NASA’s 2017 Highlights
NASA (The National Aeronautics and Space Administration) has published a video that contains highlights of important events and the space agency’s achievements over the year 2017.
Historic Apollo mission control room is set to be fully restored by the 50th anniversary of Moon landing
The historic Apollo mission control room in Houston is set to be fully restored by the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission in July 2019. It will provide a snapshot of how it looked during the Moon landing on July 20, 1969.
Space Race 2.0? Lockheed Martin and NASA have teamed up to send humans to Mars
While Elon Musk and SpaceX planning to send humans to Mars as early as 2024, the American global aerospace, defense, security, and advanced technologies company Lockheed Martin has also revealed animations of a reusable rocket to colonize the red planet. The American company has teamed up with NASA, to build a space station (Mars base camp) orbiting […]
Why we should colonize Mars (and other planets and the satellites too)
Alex Kuzoian and Jessica Orwig of Business Insider has prepared a video titled “Here’s why Elon Musk wants to colonize Mars”. In the video below, we see some reasons why we should colonize Mars someday.
Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the moon, died aged 85
Edgar Mitchell, the American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aeronautical engineer and NASA astronaut and the sixth man to walk on the Moon, died on February 4, 2016, aged 85.
Photographs that were taken during the Apollo program (1966-1972) now on Flickr
Thousands of (more than 9,600) photos taken by the astronauts during the Apollo Program (1966-1972) now on the popular image and video hosting website Flickr. Network and administrative data systems specialist and Project Apollo Archive‘s creator Kipp Teague recently updated new and unprocessed versions of original NASA photo scans to the image sharing site. You […]
