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Far Above the Earth, NASA’s Apollo Lunar Lander Put Astronauts on the Moon
NASA says all six Apollo descent stages remain on the Moon as SpaceX and Blue Origin prepare Artemis lander tests.
- Standing 23 feet tall, the Apollo Lunar Module featured a descent stage with four legs that remains on the moon's surface today as a permanent marker of humanity's first lunar landing.
- On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the Sea of Tranquility, becoming the first humans to explore another world when their lander Eagle settled onto the lunar surface.
- All six descent stages remain on the moon's near side, clumped around the equator and photographed by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, appearing as whitish splotches from orbit.
- Unlike Apollo astronauts who used nine-rung ladders, future moonwalkers will descend the Starship via a 10-floor elevator as SpaceX and Blue Origin prepare landers for Artemis missions.
- If the Artemis III docking rehearsal succeeds next year, NASA could launch its first moon landing with astronauts since Apollo as early as 2028, marking humanity's return to the lunar surface.
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Far above the Earth, NASA’s Apollo lunar lander put astronauts on the moon
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — America’s most daring, extraordinary feat — landing astronauts on the moon — remains the pinnacle of achievement by anyone anywhere. Ever.
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Margaret Hamilton was 32 years old when her Apollo 11 flight software began throwing 1202 alarms during the lunar descent, and the priority-scheduling system she had insisted on building — over objections that it was overkill — silently shed low-priority tasks and let Armstrong land with less than 30 seconds of fuel to spare.
At 4:17 p.m. Eastern on July 20, 1969, with the Lunar Module Eagle above the Sea of Tranquility, a yellow warning light flashed on the display in front of Neil Armstrong. The Apollo Guidance Computer was reporting a 1202 alarm — executive overflow, more jobs than it could finish in the time it had. Over the next four minutes, five such alarms would fire. The spacecraft did not crash. It kept flying, because the software running inside the comput…
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