apollo 11
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Woman Sues NASA For Allegedly Damaging Her Precious Apollo 11 Lunar Sample Bag
In 2017, Nancy Lee Carlson of Illinois auctioned off a genuine Apollo 11 lunar sample bag for $3 million dollars. That’s a good score given she purchased the bag for $1,400, but she was expecting as much as $6 million. The reason for the low value, she says, is that NASA damaged the bag — and…
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Apollo 11’s Source Code Is A Surprisingly Hilarious Artifact, Now Online
One of the most surprising things about the Apollo 11 guidance computer source code isn’t just the sheer size of it, but rather the amount of in-jokes that scientists included with it.
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Smithsonian Kickstarter Campaign Raises Over $700,000 To Restore Apollo Spacesuits
It’s official. The Smithsonian’s crowdfunding campaign to preserve and display Neil Armstrong’s Apollo 11 spacesuit ended early this morning. And it was such a huge success, they will be restoring Alan Shepard’s suit as well.
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The Watch That Walked On The Moon Gets An Anniversary Upgrade
Believe it or not not, the watch that Buzz Aldrin wore as he took those first steps on the moon wasn’t some custom contraption engineered by NASA to endure the vacuum of space. It was an Omega Speedmaster Chronograph, and 45 years later the watchmaker has released a commemorative follow-up called the Speedmaster Professional Apollo…