A Rolex watch that was flown to the moon is now the most expensive astronaut timepiece to sell at auction. The personal ...
Alan Shepard, the first American in space, and his Lunar Module pilot Edgar Mitchell landed on the moon nine months after the near-tragic aborted mission of Apollo 13. Though it looks flat in this ...
Alan Shepard who had been the first American in space, commanded Apollo 14 and landed with Ed Mitchell in the Fra Mauro highlands; Stuart Roosa piloted the command module. Dave Scott, Al Worden ...
From +4 days, 14 hours, 35 minutes to +4 days, 18 hours, 10 minutes, there is no transcription of voice communication between the Apollo 12 lunar module and the ground. Click to embiggen ...
On Nov. 14, 1994, the 31-mile Channel Tunnel under the English Channel opened to passenger traffic between England and France ...
We just talked about 12, and the issues on 13 are well known. Apollo 14 almost didn’t have a successful docking between the command module and the lunar module: it took six attempts and a non ...
Mitchell's Rolex can be seen in photos and film stills of him suiting up for his Jan. 31, 1971 launch and while aboard the Apollo 14 command module. Similarly, Apollo 13 crew member Jack Swigert ...
Look at these things. They’re shiny, sparkling.” Announcer: So after missing a moon landing in 1970, the Apollo 14 and 15 moon missions of 1971 put the United States that much closer to the ...
The personal GMT-Master chronometer worn by NASA astronaut Edgar Mitchell as lunar module pilot on the 1971 Apollo 14 mission sold for $2.2 million (or to be precise, $2,163,199) on Thursday (Oct ...