Editor’s Notice: This weblog was at first posted in December 2008 to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Apollo 8’s historic mission. It has been flippantly edited. On December 21, 1968, Apollo 8 was introduced on just one of the biggest journeys in the background of human exploration. Think about if […]
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Apollo 13 at 50 Years: Looking Back at the Mission’s Lost Lunar Science
Had everything gone to plan, NASA’s third mission to land astronauts on the moon would have deployed a pallet of science instruments and brought back samples from humanity’s first visit to the lunar uplands. Instead, 50 years ago this month, Apollo 13 “had a problem.” An oxygen tank that had […]