Apollo 11 was the first spaceflight that landed humans on the Moon. Mission commander Neil Armstrong and pilot Buzz Aldrin landed the lunar module Eagle on July 20, 1969.
Some 40 light-years from Earth, a planet called TRAPPIST-1e offers a heart-stopping view: brilliant objects in a red sky, looming like larger and smaller versions of our own moon. But these are no moons. They are other Earth-sized planets in a spectacular planetary system outside our own.
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"The whole thing was a misconception from the very beginning," says Dr. John Carlson, director of the Center for Archaeoastronomy. "The Maya calendar did not end on Dec. 21, 2012, and there were no Maya prophecies foretelling the end of the world on that date."
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Tim Russ, the actor who played Tuvok on "Star Trek: Voyager", stopped by All Space Considered and talked about his passion for astronomy and shared with us his most recent projects.
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On Saturday, NASA is launching its latest Mars explorer a robot that will sit on the surface of the Red Planet and measure the world as it wobbles. This mission, InSight, is different from previous Mars vehicles, which studied the planet’s surface. Instead, InSight will be helping scientists to peer underneath the crust, to learn more about Mars’ insides, and that could tell us a whole lot about how this planet was born. InSight is a lander, not a rover; once it touches down on Mars, it will stay put for the rest of its lifetime on the planet. From this stationary post, InSight will detect what are known as marsquakes. Like earthquakes, they’re rumblings in the planet’s crust but they aren’t caused by the same forces. Earthquakes are often the result of our planet’s tectonic plates slipping past each other on the surface. Marsquakes are thought to happen when the planet cools and contracts, causing the crust to crinkle slightly.
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Entrepreneur Elon Musk unveiled his contrarian vision for sending humans to Mars in roughly the next decade, and ultimately setting up colonies there, relying on bold moves by private enterprise, instead of more-gradual steps previously proposed by Washington.
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A planetarium is a theatre built primarily for presenting educational and entertaining shows about astronomy and the night sky, or for training in celestial navigation.
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In this footage from 2009, former North American ALMA Project Director Dr. Adrian Russell toured inside the Vertex Assembly Building with former Vertex Technical Lead, Lutz Stenvers. VertexRSI assembled its 25, 12-meter North American ALMA telescopes inside this 330-foot building at the ALMA Operations Support Facility.
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It's a little known fact that there was once a time when a central african country, known today as the Democratic Republic of the Congo or #Congo DRC was a testing and launching site for rockets meant to carry satellites and humans into space. In fact the Congo, then the republic of #Zaire was the site of the world's very first private space program.
It was Lutz Kayser, a gifted engineer from Germany that along with a handful of scientists, established in 1975 the first private space enterprise called #ORTAG. (Orbital Transport Und Raketen Aktiengesellschaft)
ORTAG managed to attract several investors and the stage was set for a rocket test launch. However what the company wanted was a site where they could test launch rockets that could carry satellites into space.
A chance meeting with a German businessman involved with the organization of the famous 1974 'Rumble in the Jungle' boxing match between Mohammed Ali en George Foreman in Zaire set the ball rolling. The businessman sugested that Zaire could be the ideal site for ORTAG's testing and launching facilities.
The then President of Zaire: Mobutu Sese seko was a huge fan of ORTAG and saw immense opertunities for Zaire functioning as a launching site for the German rockets. and so a contract was signed on December 1975 for the use of 100.000 square killometers of land in the Katanga province.
After 18 Months of work the Rocket was ready and on may 17, 1977 ORTAG launched it's first rocket over the skies of Zaire. the launch went like a dream and could not be more successful. However things started going wrong for ORTAG soon thereafter. The world started taking note of Zaire ambitious Space exploits and both the USA and the USSR where afraid that Mobutu could start making rockets of his own, which could threaten their own interests.
They also started viewing Zaire as a fast emerging military treath in space. And so the world's first private space program was discontinued in April of 1979 under pressure of both superpowers... But not before ORTAG would launch 2 more rockets, one of which in front of the President Mobutu and the international press.
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