Sentences with phrase «first moon»

These enabled the army to track moving targets and later to obtain the world's first moon echoes — a feat that made front - page headlines worldwide in 1946.

And for more on the historic first moon landing as its 40th anniversary approaches, see our In - Depth Report on Apollo 11.

India's first moon probe, Chandrayaan - 1, has suffered a critical malfunction that jeopardizes the remainder of the mission.

Like millions of other people around the world, the Aldrins later watched the actual liftoff and the famous first moon steps on their living room television.

China's first moon landing, the Chang» e-3 mission, marks the rekindling of humanity's love affair with our only natural satellite.

The historic pad, which was used for the first Moon mission, will accommodate SpaceX's Florida launches thanks to a deal with NASA in 2014 for a 20 - year lease to use the site.

The historic pad was used for the first Moon mission.

Like the first moon landing, it requires a special breed of people working together with unusual skill, focus and determination.

It's a 16 - minute ride in the cool darkness, from early Egypt to the first Moon landing and beyond.

A telling example of the new celestial order came two months ago when India launched its first moon mission, the unmanned Chandrayaan 1 spacecraft.

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the first moon landing, we are giving readers the chance to win a piece of lunar meteorite.

a) It's the largest irregularly shaped moon in the solar system b) It's the only moon in the solar system that astronomers think may have its own moon c) It bears an uncanny resemblance to the Death Star before Luke Skywalker blew it up d) It was the first moon to be discovered by an interplanetary spacecraft

And this seemed like, it was looking at the 40th anniversary of that first moon landing, both to run this article about the astronauts» experiences by Harrison «Jack» Schmitt — the only really trained scientist who then also became an astronaut and went to the moon — so it was good time to run that article, and also for me to reminisce about all of this myself because of certain little experiences of my own.

Now, a team of Israeli researchers suggests that the Moon we see every night is not Earth's first moon, but rather the last in a series of moons that orbited Earth in the past.

A team of Israeli researchers suggests that the Moon we see every night is not Earth's first moon, but rather the last in a series of moons that orbited the Earth in the past.

In recognition of the 45th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, the first moon landing, everyone is invited to participate in sharing their moon landing stories by uploading them to YouTube and sharing them with the hashtag #Apollo45.

After completing the first moon landing in 1969, Apollo 11 splashed down in the Pacific, scattering lunar dust.

About ten years after the first moon landing, scientists on earth made a discovery that proved that our home planet still holds a lot of surprises in store for us.

When enough material is left in the rings, a second moon would grow where the first moon formed.

Ley's role was complex, and his life took an intriguing and meandering path through many of the 20th century's key events: the rise of airborne technology after the first world war; rocketry's beginnings; the Nazis» ascent; the cold war; the popularisation of the idea of space travel; and, finally, as apotheosis, the first moon landing, which occurred mere weeks after his death.

Dr. George R. Carruthers, astrophysicist, pioneer in the use of ultraviolet spectroscopy to study the universe, and inventor who developed the first moon - based observatory for the Apollo 16 mission, is the recipient of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific's Arthur B.C. Walker II Award.

His invention, a 50 - pound, gold - plated ultraviolet telescope was used during Apollo 16, the NASA mission landing the first moon - based space observatory.

I got my hands on some of their newest products from the «The First Moon Drawing» collection (just launched September 20th!)

Time-wise Cleopatra lived closer to the first moon flight than to the development of the largest Ancient Egypt pyramids.

Screenwriter Ehren Kruger, flying solo this time around, plants a flag in the conspiracy theories swirling around the first moon landing in»69 throwing in a NASA cover - up.

With a final focus on the first moon landing and Neil Armstrong.

Destroy the other Sherm and ride up the slope to get the first moon shard.

Could it be that the US get this first satellite into space but that Russia achieves the first moon landing?

To get the first Moon of the game, look out for a Chain Chomp in front of a glowing pillar of rock.

«For more than 125 years, ZEISS lenses have been writing history: they are creative tools for the most sophisticated photo and film artists and they documented pioneer achievements of mankind, such as the first moon landing in 1969,» said Dr. Winfried Scherle, Executive Vice President and General Manager of the ZEISS Business Group Consumer Optics.

She was in the Saharan desert during the first moon landing when the image of the earth seen from outer space was televised around the globe.

Space exploration and the science fiction imagination of alien encounters out in the stars reached their peak of optimistic possibility between the 1940s and 1970s, culminating with the first moon landing in 1969.

The 1960s were the decade of the Kennedys, Martin Luther King, the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Vietnam, and the first moon landing.

Nata nel ’63 (Born in» 63) and Prove per la luna (Attempts for the Moon), both 1996, describe the emotion of the first moon landing, seen through the eyes of those who followed it, mediated by a screen that unified millions of people throughout the world.

A closer inspection of the former work reveals that Kuri's newspaper is from July 21, 1969, the date of the first moon landing.

Along with man's first moon landing — an event with which Lucio Fontana and many other artists were obsessed — and the premiere of the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, the publication of Art and Space that same year (1969) marked a decidedly spatial moment in the culture of that time, reinforced by works like Italo Calvino's Cosmicomics (1965) and Species of Spaces by Georges Pérec (1974).

By re-enacting scenarios that were once accompanied by a grand, world dominating narrative (the first moon - landing, or the conquest of Everest) and using model - making and make - believe to spin the yarn, these short video works quietly subvert the epic tale.

Or the anniversary of the day of the first moon landing.

It was only decades later that he realised that his brother had been born in 1968, one year before the first moon landing.