but Apollo astronauts also capitalized on the opportunity to test scientific ideas. During the Apollo 15 mission in 1971, astronauts David Scott and James Irwin decided to test a centuries-old ...
Astronauts on the Apollo missions of the 1960s and '70s collected rocks, took photos, performed experiments, planted flags, and then came home. But those stays didn't establish a lasting human ...
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.