Mr Aldrin has truly seen the world from a different perspective, from the Moon.
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It measures 5, 500 miles and is the only man-made object observable from the moon.
In the extended mission, Cassini could come as close as 24km (15 miles) from the moon's surface.
The printers, operated by robots, would use soil from the Moon, known as regolith, to build the layered cover.
It occurred between two Apollo missions, with one crew just returned from the Moon and another preparing for launch.
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"It doesn't matter if you're gay, straight, pink, purple, orange, polka-dotted, from Mars, from the moon or any other place, " Wing-Kovarik said.
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The exhibition in his honour, From the Moon to the Muckle Toon, was officially opened by David Stevenson - the second man to receive such an honour.
China may someday be looking down on us from the moon.
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This year's show in the sky may not produce as many highlights for some viewers because of light from the moon, NASA said in a statement.
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The LLCD (Lunar Laser Communications Demonstration) launches on LADEE in January of next year and will demonstrate a laser downlink rate of 622 megabytes from the moon.
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Anyone able to perceive the Great Wall from the moon would have to have an eye keen enough to see a human hair from a distance of two miles.
Still, when the sun lines up perfectly on the opposite side of the Earth from the moon, as it did on January 4, 1912, it increases the tidal effect slightly.
However, while mining helium-3 from the moon will be one challenge, extracting energy from it is another, as it relies on nuclear fusion, rather than fission used in today's nuclear reactors.
Angry at the Zimbabwe Football Association's lack of planning, an angry Koufie suggested that not even a coach from the moon would help the national team to qualify for any major tournament under those circumstances.
His book "Voices From the Moon" is based upon interviews with the surviving Apollo astronauts, and he concludes there's no "lunar syndrome" that's sent the moonwalkers down paths odder than any dozen former colleagues in other lines of work.
In 1980, the Nevada-based entrepreneur claimed ownership of the moon after finding what he calls a loophole in the 1967 United Nations Outer Space Treaty, which forbids countries from owning the moon but, according to Hope, does not forbid individuals from owning it.
Most importantly, that feeling from the old Farmville, borrowed from the Harvest Moon series, is still intact.
In 2006, Stardust is scheduled to become the first spacecraft to return to Earth with material from beyond the moon.
In the run-up to the vote on May 6th, in which the Liberals, Labour, and Greens increased their strength at the expense of the Christian Democrats, the Netherlands deployed a technique that did not prevent politicians from promising the moon, but at least forced them to come clean about the cost.
According to Weidner, schoolchildren in the 1960s were taught that the distance from the Earth to the Moon was 237, 000 miles.
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It was only when the ash from the disintegrating moon rained down on their faces and breasts that they began to disperse.
As Laine explains in the video, an elevator from the surface of the Moon to a rendezvous point between the Earth and its satellite is actually possible using current technology.
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For example, nobody knows where the moon's weak, erratic magnetic field came from: was the moon bombarded by magnetic meteors, or did it once have its own strong internal magnetic field that has decayed over time?
Some make it to the surface the signs are all over the Planet and moon from the ones that have.
And the absence of heat coming from the interior means that the moon is an inert lump of rock, bereft of interesting geological processes such as vulcanism.
If the 295 trillion megabytes (or, exabytes) of stored information were saved on CD-ROMs, the stack of CDs would stretch from the Earth to beyond the moon, according to Hilbert and Lopez.
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In his version (From the Earth to the Moon, 1865, and its sequel, All Around the Moon, 1870), an aluminum craft launched from central Florida achieves a speed of 24, 500 miles per hour, circles the moon and splashes down in the Pacific.
The launching ceremony featured a video message from UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and messages from the Presidents of Kenya and Mongolia.
The giant rocket engines that propelled mankind to the moon have been retrieved from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.
But astronomers have figured out a clever way for Hubble to "observe" the effects of the transit on the light from the sun: by looking at the moon.
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