Tag: saturn v
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Apollo 11 Launch of July 16, 1969 on CBS
It’s still historic – as most people remember where they were on July 16, 1969 – as Apollo 11, first space mission to land men on Moon, lifted off from Kennedy Space Center. Saturn V booster rocket, according to Wikipedia, “… remains the tallest, heaviest, and most powerful rocket ever brought to operational status and…
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space x ‘falcon heavy’ to lift off in 2013
Are launch costs too high and weighing down your bottom line? Elon Musk, Space X founder, pitches his Falcon Heavy booster as right for the job to lift your prospects! In a Discovery News article, Musk says, “…we can realistically start to contemplate missions like a Mars sample return, which requires a tremendous amount of…
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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…