Tag: apollo
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Amelia Earhart hosts live screening of ‘Cosmic Birth’ on 50th anniversary of Apollo 13
Denver news reporter and aviatrix Amelia Rose Earhart will host a live online screening of the documentary Cosmic Birth this Saturday at 8.30 PM Mountain Time. Earhart, who is a board member of the Exploration Museum in Húsavík, made headlines around the world in 2014 when she completed her global circumnavigation flight in a single-engine…
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Film ‘Cosmic Birth’ to show a different side of Men who walked on Moon
A new Icelandic documentary about the Apollo lunar missions will premiere on July 20 this year, celebrating the 50th anniversary of Neil Armstrong’s first step on the alien world. The film, named Cosmic birth, is co-produced by the Húsavík Exploration Museum and will look at the human side of the Moon missions and the men…
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Moonwalker breaks ground for museum expansion
Apollo 16 astronaut Charlie Duke, who in 1972 became the youngest man to walk on the Moon, broke ground for a new wing of the Exploration Museum today. Charlie Duke spent 3 days on the Moon, performing scientific experiments, as well as roaming over the lunar surface on the Lunar Rover. The Moonwalker was joined…
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The day Neil Armstrong set his foot on Iceland
In the summer of 1967, a group of American astronauts visited Iceland to study the islands’ geology under the guidance of Icelandic and American geologists. This was the second group of astronauts to visit Iceland, the first group had been there two years earlier. One of the young men who set foot on Iceland on…