Lunar Muse: Pop Culture Echoes from the Moon Landing explores the ways in which the moon and the cosmos have long captured the popular imagination. Episode 1 looks at JFK’s promise to put a man on the moon before the end of the 1960s. Follow our Apollo 11 coverage here: http://apne.ws/J4J27xv This video can be licensed through: http://www.aparchive.com Subscribe: http://smarturl.it/AssociatedPress http://www.apnews.com/
Lunar Muse
Five part mini-series that explores the ways in which the moon and the cosmos have long captured the popular imagination.
The Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the United States human spaceflight program led by NASA, which successfully landed the first humans on the Moon in 1969.[2] Apollo followed Project Mercury that put the first Americans in space
THE MOON TRASH
Everybody knows that man has been on the Moon, but not everyone is aware that he treated the place like a picnic area. Over time, the astronauts who visited the Moon managed to leave quite a bit of trash behind. It is estimated that there’s 181,437 kilograms (about 400,000 lbs) of man-made materials lying around the Moon.
Don’t worry, though—it’s not as if the astronauts have been purposely littering the place and throwing sandwich wrappers and banana peels everywhere. Most of that garbage is debris from various experiments, space probes and lunar rovers. Some of it is, in fact, still functional today. There is also some real trash, however, such as astronaut poop containers. Gross.
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