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When is Apollo 50th Anniversary

Apollo 50th Anniversary

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When is Apollo 50th Anniversary

July 20, 1969, was when Apollo 11 blasted off from the USA, sending astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins on a journey to the moon and back. It took around three days to get to the moon, and then Armstrong and Aldrin spent 21 hours and 26 minutes on the lunar surface, becoming the first humans to set foot on it. Exactly 50 years ago, the world heard these famous words as Neil Armstrong lowered onto the surface of the Moon: “That's one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind.”
 
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Apollo 11 turns 50: Moon exploration, interesting facts & Nasa's to-do list

NASA's Project Artemis aims to take more humans, including the first woman ever to the moon

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Updated On : 14 Oct 2019 | 5:57 PM IST

Google doodle celebrates 50th anniversary of Nasa's Apollo 11 Moon mission

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Updated On : 19 Jul 2019 | 12:27 PM IST

50 years of Apollo mission: Was Moon landing fake? Here are the facts

Conspiracy theories that claimed that the moon landing was faked and that it was all a Hollywood-like cinematic production shot on Earth have been doing the rounds for decades

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Updated On : 19 Jul 2019 | 11:02 AM IST

How big is moon and how far is it? Let's put facts into perspective

The equatorial diameter of the Moon is about 3,476km, while the polar diameter is 3,472km

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Updated On : 19 Jul 2019 | 8:11 PM IST

Women yet to step on moon but well intertwined with it in literature

The moon is often envisaged as a female entity, which inspired poems on the theme of her gaze as she looks down on Earth benignly

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Updated On : 19 Jul 2019 | 9:49 AM IST

50th anniversary of Apollo 11: How we came to know a lot about the Moon

Here's a brief timeline of the landmark moments of lunar exploration in modern times

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Updated On : 19 Jul 2019 | 3:54 PM IST

Exposing the moon's surface: Equipment that changed space photography

Photographs of the first moon landing were nothing short of artistic masterpieces that redefined imagery with the picture of a footprint

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Updated On : 19 Jul 2019 | 9:00 AM IST

Moonwalk to MTV: How photos by Apollo 11 astronauts influenced pop culture

People collected and shared prints of the Apollo 11 landing and moonwalk, which also became the basis for artist Andy Warhol's colored prints 'Moonwalk' and for MTV's logo in 1981

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Updated On : 17 Jul 2019 | 5:00 PM IST

Understanding time dilation: A year in space makes you older or younger?

How space travel and long-duration missions might change the human body, and whether those changes are permanent or reversible once astronauts return to Earth, is largely unknown

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Updated On : 17 Jul 2019 | 10:58 AM IST

'One small step for a man': Did we mishear Armstrong's first words on Moon?

Armstrong insisted that he actually said, 'That's one small step for a man.' In fact, in the official transcript, Nasa transcribes the quote as 'that's one small step for (a) man'

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Updated On : 17 Jul 2019 | 10:48 AM IST

Growing up in Space Age: We need a moonshot of the first footstep on Mars

Moonshot is necessary not because more flags need to be planted and more footsteps left behind on a distant world, but because of the need to inspire present and future generations

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Updated On : 14 Oct 2019 | 4:30 PM IST

For $15 you can take tour of the unique artifacts from Apollo 11 mission

A jacket Armstrong wore during the Apollo 11 mission and a moon rock are among the many artifacts

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Updated On : 17 Jul 2019 | 9:58 AM IST

How drawing map of the Moon for Apollo became a national priority

President John F. Kennedy announced that a national goal for the decade was to send a man to the Moon and back safely

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Updated On : 16 Jul 2019 | 12:07 PM IST

Less support from women in space exploration? Time to change perception

Women have been historically excluded from the space program

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Updated On : 15 Jul 2019 | 8:55 AM IST

Space travel was a dream for artists long before Armstrong stepped on moon

For centuries, the dream of human travel into the cosmos has fired imaginations

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Updated On : 15 Jul 2019 | 8:37 AM IST

Explore first moon landing in your living room with Google's 3D re-creation

Users would get to explore 20 new stories about lesser-known aspects of the mission and the people who contributed to it

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Updated On : 11 Jul 2019 | 1:50 PM IST

Footprints on the Moon: An interview with space archaeologist Alice Gorman

There is a lot of documentation about what's been left on the Moon - but it's amazing how much we don't know

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Updated On : 11 Jul 2019 | 11:53 AM IST

Rockets to satellites: Moon landing innovations that changed life on Earth

As a NASA airborne astronomy ambassador and director of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Manfred Olson Planetarium

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Updated On : 11 Jul 2019 | 10:46 AM IST

Water purification to breathing masks, 4 innovations Apollo mission gave us

Four surprising technological innovations that came out of the Apollo moon landings

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Updated On : 11 Jul 2019 | 10:33 AM IST

Why moon landings footage would have been impossible to fake in 1969

Moon landings footage would have been impossible to fake - a film expert explains why

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Updated On : 11 Jul 2019 | 9:28 AM IST