Articles filed under Science
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SpaceX: Leaky valve caused crew capsule to explode in testJul 15, 2019 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - A leaky valve caused a SpaceX crew capsule to explode during a ground test back in April, destroying the spacecraft and dealing a blow to the...
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Apollo 11 moon landing had thousands working behind scenesJul 15, 2019 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - It took 400,000 people to put Apollo 11's Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon a half-century ago. That massive workforce stretched acr...
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Apollo 11's 'amiable strangers' Armstrong, Aldrin, CollinsJul 13, 2019 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Mission commander Neil Armstrong was the flying ace, Buzz Aldrin the scholar. Michael Collins was a crack test pilot, too, but also a wordsmi...
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Apollo 11 at 50: Celebrating first steps on another worldJul 13, 2019 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - A half-century ago, in the middle of a mean year of war, famine, violence in the streets and the widening of the generation gap, men from pla...
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Apollo 11 at 50: Celebrating first steps on another worldJul 13, 2019 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - A half-century ago, in the middle of a mean year of war, famine, violence in the streets and the widening of the generation gap, men from pla...
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Apollo 11 at 50: Celebrating first steps on another worldJul 13, 2019 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - A half-century ago, in the middle of a mean year of war, famine, violence in the streets and the widening of the generation gap, men from pla...
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Timing put Hoffman Estates engineer on Apollo teamJul 13, 2019 1:00 am - A decade in the making, the Apollo 11 mission to land men on the moon in 1969 required precision timing. That all started in the early '60s with the central timing equip...
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Armstrong's best friend couldn't bear to watch moon landing: 'I knew it was a high-risk situation'Jul 13, 2019 1:00 am - Austin "Jim" Bailey Jr.'s best friend, the pilot he helped train, was about to use the equipment Bailey helped design to do something historic on live television. "You'v...
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Science Says: Airplane turbulence can strike out of the blueJul 12, 2019 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - They literally don't see it coming. "Clear-air turbulence," which evidently jolted an Air Canada flight Thursday over the Pacific Ocean, strikes almost l...
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Here's a fact: We went to the moon in 1969Jul 11, 2019 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Fifty years after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon, some people insist it never happened and was all a big hoax by the U.S. government. ...