Sentences with phrase «lunar module landing»

The video above provides an unusual split - screen view of Armstrong's hop from the lunar module landing gear to the dusty lunar surface (much more footage and background is here).

At the Museum of Flight, simulators let visitors execute an Apollo lunar module landing.

But Schultz had a different idea for how the swirls may form — one that has its roots in watching the lunar modules land on the Moon during the Apollo program.

Not exact matches

Cernan was the lunar module pilot for the Apollo 10 mission, the «dress rehearsal» that made it possible for the historic moon landing a few months later.

Less than seven years after Kennedy's speech, on July 20th 1969, the crew of Apollo 11 landed the Eagle module on the lunar surface — and humankind took its famed giant leap forward into interplanetary exploration.

The 3 - D structure — shaped much like the Apollo lunar landing module — let the researchers identify places on the surface of the complex protein that enable it to dock with carbohydrates located on the small intestine's interior wall.

Or you could simply land close to a habitation module that could be reused and put the lunar lander into wait mode.

Paul Van Hoeydonck's Fallen Astronaut was delivered by the crew of Apollo 15 in 1971 (see p. 43) and Warhol's stylized signature — which resembles a rocket — figures with drawings by Robert Rauschenberg, David Novros, John Chamberlain, Claes Oldenburg and Forrest Myers on the Moon Museum; this tiny ceramic chip was allegedly smuggled by a NASA engineer on to the landing module of Apollo 12's lunar lander, Intrepid, in 1969, which was left on the lunar surface.

A thief took the gold replica of a lunar landing module astronaut that Neil Armstrong gifted to an Ohio museum, local police confirmed Tuesday.

After all, he said at NASA he'd used computer models to develop the landing gear for the lunar module and knows a thing or two about them.