Discover – June 2019

38 DISCOVERMAGAZINE.COM NA SA (^3 )^ The men who flew to the moon reflect on legacies, comfort and loneliness. WALTER CUNNINGHAM ...

JUNE 2019. DISCOVER 39 JAMES MCDIVITT APOLLO 9, MARCH 1969 APOLLO MANAGER, 1969-1972 INTERVIEWED IN SEPTEMBER 2018; NOW AGE 88 O ...

40 DISCOVERMAGAZINE.COM FR OM LE FT :^ A SS OC IAT ED PR ES S;^ NA SA (^3 ) MICHAEL COLLINS APOLLO 11, JULY 1969 INTERVIEWED IN ...

NEIL ARMSTRONG’S CHILDREN [Their dad flew on Apollo 11, July 1969; Armstrong died in 2012] ON HAVING AN EXTRAORDINARY FATHER Ric ...

19 6 2 19 6 3 19 6 4 19 6 5 19 6 6 42 DISCOVERMAGAZINE.COM NA SA PH OT OS (^9 ) October 27, 1961: SA-1 Uncrewed suborbital fligh ...

19 6 7 19 6 8 19 6 9 19 7 0 19 7 1 19 72 January 27, 1967: Apollo 1 accident A fire kills the mission’s three astronauts during ...

NA SA VI A^ U SG S Putting a human on the moon was an epic feat of engineering. But another group of researchers made the Apollo ...

NA SA (^4 ) An astronaut, a little hop and a witty quote: Neil Armstrong’s first lunar footstep is ingrained in the minds of all ...

46 DISCOVERMAGAZINE.COM FR OM TO P:^ AS SO CIA TE D^ P RE SS ;^ S OV FO TO /G ET TY IM AG ES ;^ N AS A Neil Armstrong took one s ...

JUNE 2019. DISCOVER 47 FR OM TO P:^ NA SA (^3 );^ D AN BI SH OP /D ISC OV ER Before Apollo, humans could only learn so much abou ...

FRAMING HISTORY Apollo’s astronauts captured images that remain icons of the Space Age. BY ERNIE MASTROIANNI Like anyone embarki ...

JUNE 2019. DISCOVER 49 A Astronaut John Young retrieves tools from the lunar rover during the Apollo 16 mission. The vehicle, us ...

T O T H E MOON AND BACK 50 DISCOVERMAGAZINE.COM A Astronauts captured spectacular views of the rugged lunar surface in sharp det ...

NA SA (^9 ) JUNE 2019. DISCOVER 51 G An aluminum statuette and a list of fallen astronauts were placed on the surface by Apollo ...

52 DISCOVERMAGAZINE.COM Invigorated by a renewed fascination with space exploration, as well as the emergence of billionaire-bac ...

JUNE 2019. DISCOVER 53 A Planetary Effort Lunar living: Humans have talked about returning permanently to the moon ever since Ge ...

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56 DISCOVERMAGAZINE.COM AQ UA PIX /SH UT TE RS TO CK For decades, textbooks taught that humans left our ancestral African homela ...

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