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Earthrise: How the Apollo 8 astronauts gave every photographer on the planet an important lesson

A lack of planning left the astronauts scrambling the snap the iconic image in the nick of time – a monumental story we can ...
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NASA planned a one-man Saturn V mission to rescue astronauts from the Moon

In 1965, North American Aviation studied an emergency mission for astronauts stranded near the Moon. A spare Saturn V would ...

In 1971, an Apollo 14 astronaut took nearly 500 tree seeds around the Moon; many later germinated into ‘Moon Trees’ on Earth

The Apollo 14 mission took a remarkable step in history by sending tree seeds into lunar orbit. After these seeds were brought back, the U.S. Forest Service managed to germinate them. During the ...