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OTD In Space - August 9: Luna 24 Sample Return Mission Launches To The Moon
On Aug. 9, 1976, the Soviet space program launched its last moon mission. Luna 24 was a robotic sample return mission and the ...
Apollo 13 moon mission leader James Lovell dies at 97
Lovell turned a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering, inspiring the movie "Apollo 13," where ...
James Lovell, who turned the failed moon mission Apollo 13 into triumph, dies at 97
James Lovell's Apollo 13 mission suffered an oxygen leak while on its way to the Moon. The crew spent four days orbiting the ...
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Analysis: Why NASA is planning to build a nuclear reactor on the Moon and what the law says
Nuclear reactors in space may sound like something out of science fiction, but they are likely to prove important for ...
Jim Lovell, Commander Of NASA's Apollo 13 Moon Mission, Dies At 97
American astronaut Jim Lovell, commander of the failed 1970 mission to the moon that nearly ended in disaster but became an ...
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16 scientist behind India's Moon mission visit Kashi Vishwanath temple
A group of 16 scientists working on the Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO's) Chandrayaan (moon) mission visited the ...
'Houston, we've a problem': Jim Lovell, Apollo 13 commander who turned failed Moon mission into a 'successful failure,' dies at 97
Apollo 13 commander Jim Lovell, who turned a near-disastrous moon mission into a legendary survival story, has died at 97, ...
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Apollo 13 moon mission leader James Lovell dead at 97
Astronaut James Lovell, who was commander of the 1970 Apollo 13 mission that managed to get back to earth safely after an oxygen tank explosion, has died. He was 97. NASA confirmed his death in a ...