On the moon

Papier mache makes a fairly accurate medium for a moon model, as the uneven way the paper dries mimics the surface of the moon. Craters, valleys and rocks on the moon's surface can be sculpted with paper using pictures of the moon as a guide.

Space suit

Wallpaper is known as desktop picture and desktop background, which is an image used as a background of a graphical user interface on a computer screen or mobile communications device. Though most devices comes with a default picture, users can usually change it to files of their choosing.

Download free image of Panoramic view of Station 5 (Camelot Crater) during Apollo 17 EVA-2. Dec 12th, 1972. Original from NASA. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel. by NASA (Source) about background, space, moon, light, and public domain 441428

Hack the Moon tells the remarkable story of the engineers behind the revolutionary technologies developed for the Apollo missions. Explore newly released photos, videos and stories about the unsung heroes behind the moon landing. In the face of epic challenges, and with a fraction of today’s technology these are the people who hacked the moon.

Marcus L. asks: How many people walked on the moon? Who were they? Forty-five years ago this month, a human being first set foot on the moon. Despite four and a half decades and amazing leaps in technology, to date only 11 other people have done this – and every one flew in an Apollo mission for the National Aeronautics [...]

Man on the moon. Apollo 11

Those numbers spell out, in simple arithmetic, how much of the fossil fuel in the world’s existing coal mines and oil wells we can burn if we want to prevent global warming from cooking the planet. In other words, if our goal is to keep the Earth’s temperature from rising more than two degrees Celsius—the upper limit identified by the nations of the world—how much more new digging and drilling can we do?

Portrait of Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, commander of the Apollo 11 Lunar Landing mission in his space suit, with his helmet on the table in front of him. Behind him is a large photograph of the lunar surface.

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Apollo 16 in Lunar Orbit

Earth view from the moon during the Apollo 17 mission.