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Learn science, technology, and engineering on what would be required to spread plant life to the Moon

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The LK was the lunar lander developed in the 1960s for the Soviet N1-L3 (Soyuz 7K-LOK + LK) human lunar landing mission.

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The main thing plants need, more than soil nutrients, are water and carbon dioxides. This is part of why data indicating possible water deposits near the Moon’s poles by spacecraft such as the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and Chandrayaan-1 is so important. Based on what we knew from Apollo era missions, there was no water on the Moon, but now we understand that there is water near the poles.

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Mars Exploration Rover-A, MER-A, or Spirit was launched June 10th 2003 by a Delta II rocket.

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Soviet Union’s Lunniy Korabl

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Camera locations onboard the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle

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RugBat Sonar Module (1999). "RugWarrior Pro is more than a teaching aid; it is able to support real applications. It is configured with the Motorola MC68HC11 microcontroller, and it can be upgraded. One significant upgrade is the Stackable Expansion Module (SEM) standard. This circuitry makes it easy to add new memory-mapped sensors and actuators, and additional functionality can simply be plugged in to RugWarrior Pro. Documentation supplied with the kit provides information that enables users to construct their own SEMs. Several SEM kits are available for RugWarrior Pro; the RugBat sonar module gives RugWarrior Pro the ability to measure distance." – Rug Warrior Pro & Mobile Robots, Robot science & technology, January 1999 (p26).

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Moon rover. Japanese retro-futurism

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Early concept art of the Apollo Command Module (CM) during reentry prep. According to the person who scanned it, Mike Acs, there is a series of artworks where the CM has a ‘striped’ along the area where the parachute is located. It should be noted, this is the early version of the CM, later called the Block I variant, that lacked the docking mechanism and tunnel for the Lunar Module. At this phase of development, the direct decent mode was still at the forefront for methods of landing on the Moon.

If you don't know what that is, basically instead of having separate CSM and Lunar Lander, they were combined. Ok, this post has gone on long enough.

Artwork possibly by Gary Meyer. Scanned and posted on Flickr by Mike Acs.

Date: 1963

NASA ID: S-63-66, S-63-80, 61-458, S61-461, S61-462

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The Apollo Command and Service Module vs the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle.

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Diagram and image of interior of Apollo Lunar Module (LM). Note the Apollo Guidance Computer's (AGC) Display and Keyboard (DSKY) interface in the middle slightly below the windows in the diagram has not been installed yet or has been removed in the image.

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The first flight of the Northrup M2-F3 lifting body rocket plane on 1970 June 2nd was after the first flights of the Apollo command and service module and the Martin Marietta X-24A lifting body rocket plane, but before the first flights of the Martin Marietta X-24B lifting body rocket plane. The Northrup M2-F3 was rebuilt from the crashed Northrup M2-F2 in an attempt to improve its stability with a third middle vertical stabilizer.

These photos of the M2-F3 are from it's current display at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC.

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Southwest Technical Products 6800, complete with AC-30 cassette interface and PR-40 printer.

Large Scale Systems Museum (LSSM) - mact.io - Pittsburgh, PA

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Southwest Technical Products, or SWTP, was a producer of electronic kits and computers from 1967 to 1990. The computers were based on Motorola 6800 or 6809 CPUs.

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The crew of Skylab II deployed a collapsible parasol through the small scientific airlock to act as a sunshade. The micrometeorite shield was sheared off during the launch and with it the protection from the sun.

Date: May 31, 1973

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Launched OTD in 1971, the Mariner 9 spacecraft was the first spacecraft to orbit another planet. Taking more than 7,000 pictures, Mariner 9 imaged over 80% of Mars’ surface in its first year, an important step forward in our understanding of the Red Planet.

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Mariner 9 was launch May 30, 1971.

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54 years ago today, Surveyor 1 was launched towards the Moon. 3 days later on June 2nd it did a soft landing on the Moon using a solid propellant retrorocket and 3 smaller thrusters. 7 Surveyor spacecraft were sent to the Moon in preparation for Apollo landings. For more information on space landing systems see http://terakuhn.weebly.com/landing_system.html

Later today SpaceX will attempt to launch the Demo-2 test flight of its Crew Dragon capsule with 2 astronauts into low Earth orbit. This could be the first step in the United States returning to the Moon.

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Surveyor 1 was launched May 30, 1966

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View of the Launch Escape System tower separating from Artemis II.

Date: April 1, 2026

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Advertisement for the OSI Challenger, which is just the OSI-400 in a box - Byte Magazine, January 1977

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Ohio Scientific Instruments (OSI) was a computer company that built and marketed computer systems from 1975 to 1986. OSI's Challenger computer system, using an MOS 6502 microprocessor, was introduced in late 1976. That was about half a year before the Apple II was released.