🌕 Today in Space History: April 22, 1972 🌕On this day, during Apollo 16’s second moonwalk (EVA-2), astronauts John Young and Charlie Duke stumbled upon a lunar heavyweight—Big Muley! Weighing in at 11.7 kg (25.8 lbs), this breccia rock holds the title of the largest sample returned from the Moon during the Apollo missions. Perched on the eastern rim of Plum Crater in the Descartes Highlands, Big Muley was a surprising find. Its composition of shocked anorthosite and troctolitic melt rock chal

American History TV presents the history of the American space program all day on C-SPAN 2 with NASA films and historical newsreels on past space missions. Watch the Apollo 8 mission this Saturday at 12 PM ET. Here is the crew of Apollo 8 reading from the book of Genesis. | American History TV

On January 27, 1967, three Apollo astronauts were killed during a routine preflight rehearsal at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. Space History Archives👉 https://space-com.visitlink.me/ez1ouH The Apollo 1 fire was the first major deadly disaster in the history of the U.S. space program. Apollo 1 was supposed to be the first flight that NASA would conduct to prepare for a crewed landing on the moon. Less than a month before their planned launch date, a fire erupted inside the apollo command module w

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