Kaushik Patowary
May 24, 2021
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The Apollo missions of the 1960s and 70s provided scientists with an exciting playground upon which to conduct experiments never performed in the history of humankind. They collected samples of rocks and soil, measured seismic data, took measurements of the lunar atmosphere and lunar crust. The high vantage point allowed astronauts to take photographs of celestial objects in spectral bands not seen from Earth. They played golf, drove a rover, conducted Galileo’s famous hammer and feather experiment, and even lobbed grenades.
Astronaut Edgar D. Mitchell operates the Active Seismic Experiment s (ASE) thumper during the first Apollo 14 extravehicular activity on the moon. Photo:
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The day ‘a bomb exploded … 200,000 miles from Earth’: Apollo 13’s successful failed mission
Updated Apr 11, 2021;
Lovell told NASA’s Mission Control, “There is one whole side of that spacecraft missing.”
Apollo 13 with three astronauts on board lifted off for the moon from Kennedy Space Center on April 11, 1970.
Two days later it became obvious that Apollo 13 would not be landing on the moon but instead fighting just to return to Earth.
“Houston, we’ve had a problem,” said commander James A. Lovell Jr.
That problem was an exploded oxygen tank.
On April 14, 1970, the Associated Press reported, “
Never once, in the greatest crisis of their lives, in a danger that had materialized only in fiction, did the Apollo 13 astronauts lose their cool.
Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., 2017. | The Christian Post
Weeks after the Museum of the Bible in Washington transferred control of 5,000 disputed manuscripts and bits of papyrus to the U.S. government, officials have repatriated the artifacts to Egypt, from where the items were thought to have been illegally shipped during the Arab Spring.
The handover of the artifacts, which included manuscript fragments, funeral masks, parts of coffins, and the heads of statues, was preceded by extensive discussions with Egyptian officials that started in late 2017, MOTB Chairman of the Board Steve Green said in a statement last week.