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    Apollo, also called the Apollo basin, is an enormous impact crater located in the southern hemisphere on the far side of the Moon. This formation dwarfs...
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  • Vehicle: Apollo 16 (J1) Descartes Highlands Apollo 17 (J2) Marius Hills Apollo 18 (J3) Copernicus crater Apollo 19 (J4) Hadley Rille Apollo 20 (J5) Tycho...
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    small crater (30-meter diameter) in Mare Tranquillitatis on the Moon, east of the Apollo 11 landing site known as Tranquility Base. The Apollo 11 astronauts...
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    Apollo 12 (November 14–24, 1969) was the sixth crewed flight in the United States Apollo program and the second to land on the Moon. It was launched on...
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    Aitken (crater) Amici (crater) Anuchin (crater) Apollo (crater) Avogadro (crater) Bel'kovich (crater) Belopol'skiy (crater) Bergstrand (crater) Berkner...
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    Meteor Crater, or Barringer Crater, is an impact crater about 37 mi (60 km) east of Flagstaff and 18 mi (29 km) west of Winslow in the desert of northern...
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    North Ray crater, the largest of any of the craters any Apollo expedition had visited. After exiting Orion, the pair drove to North Ray crater. The drive...
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    after the Apollo 1 accident and were regularly used by later Apollo crews. Craters on the Moon and hills on Mars are named after the three Apollo 1 astronauts...
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    and Mitchell did not reach the rim of Cone crater as had been planned, though they came close. In Apollo 14's most famous event, Shepard hit two golf...
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    Third-party evidence for Apollo Moon landings is evidence, or analysis of evidence, about the Moon landings that does not come from either NASA or the...
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    three sites that made the final consideration for Apollo 17 were Alphonsus crater, Gassendi crater, and the Taurus–Littrow valley. In making the final...
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  • and vice admiral Apollo (crater), a basin on the far side of the Moon 1862 Apollo, a near-Earth asteroid discovered in 1932 Apollo asteroids, a group...
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  • small crater (10-meter diameter) in Mare Tranquillitatis on the Moon, within the Apollo 11 landing site known as Tranquility Base. The Apollo 11 astronauts...
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  • Apollo 18 is a 2011 found-footage science fiction horror film written by Brian Miller, directed by Gonzalo López-Gallego, and co-produced by Timur Bekmambetov...
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    Nansen-Apollo is a feature on Earth's Moon, a crater in Taurus-Littrow valley, at the base of the South Massif. Astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison...
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    lunar impact crater located on the southern part of the Mare Tranquillitatis. It is located about 25 kilometers to the north of the Apollo 11 landing site...
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    return mission to the far side whose lander successfully landed in Apollo crater on 1 June 2024 and collected lunar samples. On August 23, 2023 12:34...
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    the crater midpoint that is closest to Moltke. Moltke B was informally called Little Moltke by the Apollo 10 and Apollo 11 crews. "Moltke (crater)". Gazetteer...
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    Lunar craters are impact craters on Earth's Moon. The Moon's surface has many craters, all of which were formed by impacts. The International Astronomical...
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    northwest of the Apollo 11 landing site, Tranquility Base. Named after Edwin Buzz Aldrin, the crater is the westernmost of a row of three craters named in honor...
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    the Moon. In the original plan Apollo 15 was to be the last of the non-extended missions to land in Censorinus crater. But in anticipation of budget cuts...
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    lunar impact crater located in the southern part of the Mare Tranquillitatis. It lies about 50 kilometers to the northeast of the Apollo 11 landing site...
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    Sharp-Apollo crater is a small crater in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon. The name of the crater was formally adopted by the IAU in 1973. Apollo 12 astronauts...
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    Apollo 13 (April 11–17, 1970) was the seventh crewed mission in the Apollo space program and the third meant to land on the Moon. The craft was launched...
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    The Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the United States human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration...
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    Moon rock (category Apollo program)
    from the orbiter and landed on a mare unit at the southern part of the Apollo crater (36.1°S, 208.3°E). The mission objective was to collect about 2 kg of...
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    Montanari. This crater was named after Ernest William Brown, and is distinct from crater D. Brown, a satellite crater of the Apollo crater. The rim of Brown...
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  • Thumbnail for Apollo 15 operations on the Lunar surface
    Apollo 15 lunar surface operations were conducted from July 30 to August 2, 1971, by Apollo 15 Commander David Scott and Apollo Lunar Module Pilot James...
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    West Crater while Aldrin collected two core samples. He used the geologist's hammer to pound in the tubes—the only time the hammer was used on Apollo 11—but...
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    Genesis Rock (category Apollo 15)
    of Moon rock retrieved by Apollo 15 astronauts James Irwin and David Scott in 1971 during the second lunar EVA, at Spur crater on Earth's Moon. With a mass...
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