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Telescopes and space missions

Telescopes and space missions

Giant leaps for knowledge

16 Jul 2019
Taken from the July 2019 issue of Physics World.

NASA’s Apollo 11 mission will forever be remembered as the first to land humans on the Moon. But the mission and the rest of the Apollo programme should also be remembered for the science it achieved and enabled. Sue Nelson explores Apollo’s scientific legacy

Buzz Aldrin
Lunar luggage: Buzz Aldrin carrying two of Apollo 11’s science experiments – the Passive Seismic Experiment (in his left hand) and the Lunar Laser Ranging Experiment (in his right) – on 21 July 1969. (Courtesy: Neil Armstrong/NASA)
The world has changed since 1969. Home computers did not exist, colour televisions were up-and-comin

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Sue Nelson is a science journalist and the author of Wally Funk’s Race to Space
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