Tag: buzz aldrin
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Apollo 11 Moon Landing Site Now Seen in Unprecedented Detail
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera snapped its best look yet of the Apollo 11 landing site on the moon. The image, which was released on March 7, 2012, even shows the remnants of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin’s historic first steps on the surface around the Lunar Module.
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buzz aldrin finds the sparkle gone from his space odyssey
the buzz is gone as space-age hero’s life spins out of his control from telegraph: Over four decades after he became one of the first men on the Moon, astronaut Buzz Aldrin is experiencing the dark side.
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real moon hidden in plain sight?
Jeremey Mauney summarizes doubts about our moon satellite in a nicely written post, “Lunar Lights On A Hollow Moon?”. Mauney reports, between the years 1540 and 1967 over 540+ lights called Transient Lunar Phenomena (TLP), were recorded on the lunar surface. TLPs seem to resist explanation even to this day. The 18th Century astronomer Sir…
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phobos mystery
Why does Martian Moon Phobos generate intense interest? In 1959, Russian Samuilovich Shklovsky, an astronomer, suggested Phobos may be artificial, since he concluded the moon’s orbit was decaying and could only be due to a very low density, possibly, even hollow. Buzz Aldrin, former astronaut, touted Phobos to President Obama as key to permanent space…