Articles filed under Science
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The Latest: Pence marks Apollo 11 anniversary at launch siteJul 21, 2019 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - The Latest on the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing (all times local): 2 p.m. Vice President Mike Pence is marking the 50th anni...
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Moon back in NASA's court 50 years after 1st lunar landingJul 21, 2019 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Fifty years after humanity's first lunar footsteps, the moon is back in NASA's court. The White House wants U.S. astronauts on the moon pront...
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Nation marks 50 years after Apollo 11's 'giant leap' on moonJul 20, 2019 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - A moonstruck nation celebrated the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11's "giant leap" by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin at parties, races, ball gam...
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Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy. Tet and My Lai. Amid turmoil, moon landing united a nation.Jul 20, 2019 5:00 am - Still reeling from the 1968 assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, the violent Democratic convention in Chicago, racial struggles, riots, Cold W...
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'Space exploration is hard. We make it look easy,' says longtime NASA director from SchaumburgJul 20, 2019 5:00 am - With her family having just moved to Schaumburg in the summer of 1969, 3½-year-old Cathy Larson watched the moon landing on a black-and-white television in the new famil...
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Lombard astronaut's first flight: a pretend trip to moonJul 20, 2019 1:00 am - Astronaut Dan Tani, who grew up in Lombard, was 8 years old when NASA put a man on the moon 50 years ago. “I was doing what everybody else was doing,” remembers Tani, w...
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Apollo 11 astronauts reunite on 50th anniversary of moonshotJul 19, 2019 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins reunited Friday on the eve of the 50th anniversary of humanity's first moon landing. The...
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The Soviets tried to beat Apollo 11. They crashed a spacecraft on the moon instead.Jul 19, 2019 1:00 am - As Neil Armstrong walked on the lunar surface and marveled at the "fine, sandy particles" that crunched under his boot, he and the rest of the Apollo 11 crew were not al...
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Richard Branson inspired by Apollo, his own space shot soonJul 18, 2019 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Virgin Galactic's Richard Branson said Thursday his spaceship has just a few more test flights before he jumps on board for the first tourist...
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Memories of watching Apollo 11: 'You could hear a pin drop'Jul 18, 2019 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took their first steps on the moon in 1969, the world was watching. Live TV coverage made hundreds of millions witnes...