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Gerry Feld: Making St. Cloud a destination for space lovers

SC Times 14 Apr 2024

Cloud is already home to an actual Apollo Spacecraft near the front entrance of Apollo High School, a visitors brochure could highlight this monument offering travelers more than one space-related venue to visit while in our city.

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20th-century infrastructure not made for 21st-century climate | Opinion

The Providence Journal 31 Mar 2024

Curt Spalding, a senior consultant with GZA GeoEnvironmental Inc. in Providence, is a former U.S ... The menace is only continuing in 2024 ... The generations that will live through the decades ahead are like the space travelers on Apollo 13 ...

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Four New TAHOF Members Inducted April 19

Focus Daily News 28 Mar 2024

Walter Cunningham (1932-2023) served his country as a United States Marine Corps fighter pilot in Korea before traveling to space as an Apollo 7 astronaut and leading NASA’s Astronaut Offices’ Skylab branch until 1971.

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Nike Space Force 1! Moon rover launching in 2026 will offer brands the opportunity to advertise...

The Daily Mail 25 Mar 2024

The idea of product placement during space travel is nothing new, he pointed out. For example, during the Apollo missions of the 1960s, Omega's Speedmaster wristwatch made up an official part of each astronaut's kit.

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Pioneering Astronaut Famed For Orbital Handshake With Soviets Dies at 93

The Daily Beast 18 Mar 2024

Stafford led four missions into space, which included many historical firsts in space travel—like his Apollo 10 mission in 1969 that saw him become the first person to ever pilot a lunar module into orbit.

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Spacesuits need a major upgrade for the next phase of exploration

Phys Dot Org 07 Mar 2024

Since the 1960s, space travelers have donned suits designed to protect them from the vacuum of space and stepped out into the unknown ... The geopolitics driving space travel have shifted, and spacesuits ...

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Opinion: Why now is the time to address humanity's impact on the moon

North Shore News 18 Feb 2024

This insatiable thirst for knowledge combined with technological advancements have made it possible for us to dream of travelling in space ... Dreams of space travel started small with the launch of ...

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Why now is the time to address humanity’s impact on the moon

The Hindu 09 Feb 2024

Dreams of space travel started small with the launch of Sputnik-1 by the Soviet Union, and escalated with the U.S. Apollo landing on the moon in 1969 ....

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Over 500,000 pounds of human garbage litter the moon. A group of scientists says we ...

Business Insider 07 Feb 2024

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The three space tragedies that led to NASA's day of remembrance

CTV 01 Feb 2024

Former astronaut Julie Payette about the Apollo 1, Space Shuttle Challenger and Space Shuttle Columbia disasters and how they affected space travel and the NASA space agency ... .

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Whatever Happened to the Surviving Apollo Astronauts?

Slashdot 07 Jan 2024

The BBC checks in on "the pioneers of space exploration — the 24 Nasa astronauts who travelled to the Moon in the Apollo missions of the 1960s and 1970s ." ... we did that with Apollo," he says.

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How Apollo 8 redeemed a terrible year

Cleburne Times-Review 05 Jan 2024

Apollo 8 was cleared for liftoff from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida ... The previous record for distance traveled into space, set by Gemini 11 in 1966, was 850 miles above the Earth’s surface ... than anything we ever did in the space program.”.

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Robots on the moon and astronaut fly-bys: Here’s why 2024 could be the year of ...

CNN 02 Jan 2024

... the Cold War-era space race of the 20th century ... It will also be farther than any human has traveled in space since the Apollo era — if Polaris Dawn does indeed launch before NASA’s Artemis II flight.

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David Kalitzke

Opelika Observer 01 Jan 2024

One of his greatest memories was having the privilege of being employed by NASA and being a part of the engineering workforce on the Apollo Space Capsule ... At a very young age Dave dreamed of traveling the world, and he did just that.

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FOODFestive facts about oft-misunderstood fruitcake

Montrose Press 24 Dec 2023

Amid the shelves of holiday wares and delicacies, fruitcake makes its annual appearance ... Consider these fruitcake fun facts ... • The Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C ... It traveled into space on Apollo 11 in 1969, but was never eaten ... .