apollo

Today, though most people aren't aware of it, is the forty-seventh anniversary of the launch of Apollo 13 (wiki), at 19:13 UTC the lunar mission that came close to disaster. 56 hours after launch (that's about 3AM on Saturday) an accident in the hydrogen/oxygen tanks for the fuel cells left the...

The photos NASA posted late last week that the LRO took of the Apollo landing sites are amazing. What was the eventual fate of the ascent stages after the two astronauts boarded the Command Module?

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has directly imaged Apollo landing sites, even to showing trails in the regolith disturbed by the astronauts. Check out the details provided by the (very excited!) Bad Astronomer.

Was looking for some videos of the old Saturn V launches, when this showed up. I found it somewhat interesting. By very definition, it's "unidentified," and admitted as much by one person in the video. There's a lot of spooky sound effects and vague language that tries to paint a picture of it...

NASA is currently planning on returning to the Moon by 2020. Will Apollo Moon Landing CTers finally give up if that happens? Or will they morph their delusions into something new? Or will they claim the new missions are hoaxes as well? I not talking about the exceedingly wacky claims, like an...

People might like to see if they can meet Jack's challenge in this thread: http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=11935 Post your results here...

During the credit roll of the most excellent movie "In the Shadow of the Moon" , Alan Bean, Michael Collins, Dave Scott, Charlie Duke, and Gene Cernan briefly give some commentary on their feelings about moon conspiracies. Apparently Buzz was too busy cleaning some guy's clock to participate in...

I've been thinking, 9/11 Conspiracies are, despite our efforts, still extremely popular (relative to other CT nonsense), so when will these whacko's theories become as obscure as Moon Landing theories? It appears to me that as long as the US has a Republican government they will remain strong...