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On July 24, 1969, the Apollo 11 capsule splashed down, and the astronauts were brought to the USS Hornet. "This year, on ...
The Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum on Tuesday unveiled the first of 15 life-sized statues of Neil Armstrong's spacesuit from his historic walk on the moon. The resin statue was put on ...
Catch it at the National Air and Space Museum's Apollo 50 Festival on the National Mall from July 18-20. Lego celebrates the 50th anniversary of the moon landing with a life-size replica of an ...
The Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum has partnered with Major League Baseball (MLB) to deploy 15 replica statues of Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong's iconic spacesuit to ballparks ...
Editor’s Note: The following story, which appeared in 2017 in UD Magazine, profiles UD graduate Homer “Sonny” Reihm, who led the group at ILC Industries (now ILC Dover) that made space suits for NASA ...
The decision proved to be a good one, and the space suits served all 12 Americans who have walked on the Moon. In fact, the company is still responsible for producing NASA’s space suits to this day.
HOUSTON (FOX 26) - Different eras means different technology. That said, the technology used in producing spacesuits for the great astronauts of the Apollo era was still ahead of it’s time. Not ...
HOUSTON (FOX 26) - Different eras means different technology. That said, the technology used in producing spacesuits for the great astronauts of the Apollo era was still ahead of it's time. Not ...
For 50 years the spacesuit used by American astronauts hasn't changed drastically from the ones used by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on Apollo 11. But futuristic spacesuit designs may soon ...
Replicas made by the French jeweler Cartier were presented to Armstrong and fellow Apollo 11 space voyagers Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins in Paris shortly after they returned to Earth.