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  • Apollo 16

    Apollo 16

    Not a lot of “firsts”; Apollo 16 was just another moonlanding! John Young and Charlie Duke rode the rover across the Descartes Plains and brought back the biggest moon rock of the Apollo program.

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  • Apollo 17

    Apollo 17

    For the final Apollo moonlanding, Gene Cernan and Harrision Schmidt lived on the lunar surface for three days. They commuted to work in the rover, driving across a rugged landscape. The moon is still waiting for its next human visitor.

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  • A deadly re-entry

    A deadly re-entry

    As Boris Volnyov watched the flames lapping at the blunt nose of his Soyuz spacecraft, he felt certain that death was near. With his heat shield out of position, the 5,000 degree heat outside would soon consume him. He could already smell the burning of the rubber seals which held the spacecraft’s hatch in place. [...]

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