Earth from Space explained how satellite imagery is gathered and used to expand our understanding of life on Earth. Much like the pictures that appear on an ordinary computer monitor or television screen, satellite data are made up of pixels, or individual picture elements.
Recording environmental cycles, natural disasters, and man-made ecological effects
During those two years, NASA launched ten two-man Gemini spacecraft to gain experience
Celebrate the legacy of the McDonnell Douglas KC-10 Extender— after four decades of air missions, its final chapter is captured in a stunning photo essay. This issue also spotlights the world’s only surviving Aichi M6A1 Seiran, honors Edwin Hubble’s century-old leap into the cosmos, and previews the museum’s new Futures in Space gallery.
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Plans were falling into place for a follow-on series of two-man Gemini missions that
Forty years ago, the Moon received its first human visitors. On July 20, 1969, the Apollo 11 lunar module Eagle landed, and Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the lunar surface. To celebrate this 40th anniversary, this exhibition presents a view of the Apollo journeys through the eyes of the first artist to visit another world.
Alan Bean became the fourth man to walk on the Moon during Apollo 12 in 1969.
escape towers“ to pull the capsule away from the booster in an emergency, the two-man
Stand Object Mother and Child Object Painting, Gouache on Board Object Old man
Images This is a guidance computer designed and built for Project Gemini, a two-man
Apollo to the Moon told the historic story of human exploration of the Moon by the United States.
When President Kennedy committed the nation in 1961 to landing a man on the Moon,
During their record-setting 84 days in space, the three-man crew, consisting of astronauts
