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Chris Burns - Jan 22, 2021, 10:01am CST A hunk of the moon was delivered to the Biden administration on January 20, 2021. At the request of the President of the United States, NASA delivered a container with a sample of the lunar surface for display in the Oval Office. This piece of our nearest space neighbor now sits in the most important office in the world, in the White House, “in symbolic recognition of earlier generations’ ambitions and accomplishments, and support f...

The Human Explorer President Bush has called for the human exploration of space. His vision changes the orientation of the American manned spaceflight program from one of observing and gathering data on the human experience in space — the medical effects of zero-g and so forth — to a program of going into space to travel across it, to explore worlds. From the Symposium: The Human Explorer The president�...

In the past year, memories of the 1960s flooded back amid protests over police killings of Black men and women and the systemic racism in this country.

In Intermissions by Abhi BMW’s first production motorcycle (or vehicle, for that matter) was the 1923 R32. Over the next three years, the Germans would go on to make 3,090 examples. How many are left today? Experts suggest 40, but no one really knows for sure. What is certain is how many Peter Nettesheim owns – eight, including #22 off the assembly line. Why is that significant? Because 1-21 don’t exist anymore. That’s right – #22 in all of its glory. The Nettesheim Museum isn’t o...

American Aerospace Fifty-two years ago today, three American astronauts departed Earth to become the first men to orbit the Moon during the flight of Apollo 8. This epic mission also featured the first manned flight of the mighty Saturn V launch vehicle as well as history’s first super-orbital entry of a manned spacecraft. Following the Apollo 1 tragedy in January of 1967, the United States would not fly another manned space mission until October 1968. That flight, Apollo 7, was a ...

Deflated by a satellite and a fan-like cooling device, orbiting the earth elicense platically every 90 minutes at an altitude between 140 and 560 miles. all the u.s. government could do was ask the 70,000 members of the american radio relay league, a society of ham radio operators or buffs to help them track the soviet beeps. and as we know, a decade later in the summer of 69, the u.s. beat the russians to the moon a accomplishing the presidents goal. on july 20th, lunar module landed on the lun...

Orbiting the earth elliptically every 90 minutes at an altitude between 140 and 560 miles. all the u.s. government could do was ask the 70,000 members of the american radio relay league, a society of ham radio operators or buffs to help them track the soviet beeps. and as we know, a decade later in the summer of 69, the u.s. beat the russians to the moon a accomplishing the presidents goal. on july 20th, lunar module landed on the lunar surface. neil armstrong became the first person to walk on ...

>> apollo 11, this is houston. at 10 minutes, you are go. >> and roger, 11, go. >> we are go. confirm go. >> apollo 11, this is houston. you are confirmed go for orbit. >> roger. >> we have a report on the launch heart rates from the flight surgeon. commander neil armstrong, 110. command module pilot, mike collins, 99. lunar module pilot buzz aldrin, 88. >> moving across the atlantic towards africa and on the next revolution the spacecraft will be accelerating to the required speed to get it int...

Ride. >> roger 11. it looks like youre well on your way now. >> it was neil armstrong praising the launch vehicle. >> the crew at this time press ago head with their transposition and docking maneuver. the spacecraft after having separated from saturn third stage turning around docking with the lunar module extracting the lunar module from the saturn third stage and pushing ahead enroute to the moon. >> roger, apollo 11. good morning. >> they reports theyre receiving from tv from the spacecraft....

♪ >> this is, of course, the great day for mankind when we leave our planet earth and set foot on the moon. so on this historic day neil armstrong and buzz aldrin are in their lunar module in their space suits. on this next pass, they are preparing to undock. >> all spacecraft looking very good at this time. the following revolution, revolution 13, armstrong and aldrin, they will undock from the command and service module, from which point the power descent to the lunar surface will be initiat...