Rocket landings on the Moon and Mars come with explosive risks. Rod Pyle & @tariqjmalik talk with Dr. Phil Metzger about rocket plumes, plus Jared Isaacman's NASA hearing, Katy Perry's spaceflight, and a fresh comet discovery on This Week in Space 156!
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On a technological frontier, the first commercial lunar lander, Blue Ghost by Firefly Aerospace, has successfully completed its mission! It not only explored the lunar surface but also sent back stunning visuals, including lunar sunsets! #SpaceTech #MoonLanding
Blue Ghost Watches Lunar Eclipse from the Lunar Surface - Firefly’s Blue Ghost lander’s first look at the solar eclipse as it began to emerg... - https://hackaday.com/2025/03/16/blue-ghost-watches-lunar-eclipse-from-the-lunar-surface/ #solareclipse #moonlanding #firefly #space
One of Blue Ghost's 10 NASA Payloads, Lunar PlanetVac successfully collected, transferred, and sorted lunar soil from the Moon using pressurized nitrogen gas.
Mar. 6, 2025, Credit: Firefly Aerospace
https://flic.kr/p/2qQkj7S
Sbarco sulla luna: verità o complotto?
Un’indagine senza pregiudizi 
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https://boomerissimo.it/2025/02/16/sbarco-sulla-luna-tito-stagno-ci-aveva-fregati/
Nixon’s speech planned in case the Apollo 11 Moon landing had failed.
Le discours de Nixon prévu en cas d’échec de l’atterrissage d’Apollo 11 sur la Lune.
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ALSEP: Apollo’s Modular Lunar Experiments Laboratory - Down-Sun picture of the RTG with the Central Station in the background. (Credit: N... - https://hackaday.com/2024/12/23/alsep-apollos-modular-lunar-experiments-laboratory/ #apolloprogram #moonlanding #science #space #alsep
Alan Shepard was the first American in space and on a later trip to the moon as part of the Apollo 14 mission, he famously hit two golf balls. In "The Barber, The Astronaut, and The Golf Ball,” excerpted in @TexasObserver, two writers investigate if there was a third ball — and what happened to it.
“Something that went to the moon is a Holy Grail, then there’s a hierarchy within that level, too,” says Robert Pearlman, a space memorabilia expert. A key measure: “Was it stained by moon dust?”
https://www.texasobserver.org/book-excerpt-moon-golf-ball/
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