2019-04-01_Astronomy

20 ASTRONOMY • APRIL 2019 W hile my wife, Deborah, and I were traveling in Nepal, our housekeeper, Shirley Shebadieta, was at ou ...

ASTRONEWS Infalling dense, cold 1 molecular gas Outflowing hot 2 atomic gas Gas returning 3 to the disk WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 21 GRO ...

Rusty Schweickart remembers Apollo 9 The lunar module pilot relives the challenges and triumphs when humans tested their spacecr ...

WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 23 B efore Neil Armstrong set foot on the Moon, becoming the first human to step on another world, we had to b ...

Q 24 ASTRONOMY • APRIL 2019 Q: With Apollo, there were some crew reassignments. When things finally settled and you prepared for ...

WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 25 You take a break for lunch, and all of the guys in the control room have taken a break for lunch, and you’v ...

26 ASTRONOMY • APRIL 2019 you know. He had this terrific sense of humor. He knew all of the guys very per- sonally. He was the g ...

WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 27 Q: And then what do you feel as you move skyward? A: Very slowly, you go up, and after 10 seconds or so, yo ...

28 ASTRONOMY • APRIL 2019 on the periphery of the cylindrical tunnel, in the command module in the Apollo program, the docking m ...

WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 29 the night before the scheduled EVA that you’ve already canceled is one hell of a low time in your life. So, ...

30 ASTRONOMY • APRIL 2019 That was nice because it was a chance to really look at Earth and appreciate Earth. Up until that time ...

WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 31 The first thing you’re noticing is you’re going backward and upside down, by the way. You’re looking back o ...

32 ASTRONOMY • APRIL 2019 Apollo 9 served as an engineering test, a hardware demonstration, and a vital steppingstone on the roa ...

WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 33 In September 1962, the same month Kennedy gave his famous “We choose to go to the Moon” speech, NASA select ...

34 ASTRONOMY • APRIL 2019 program and the Russians’. We involved the pilots in the design of things.” By contrast, the Russian m ...

WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 35 Broadcasting live television from the Moon would become instrumental in captivating the public and sharing ...

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Deneb Vega Altair LY R A CYGNUS AQUILA Radiant 10° April 23, 1 A.M. Looking east Lyrid meteor shower WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 37 METEOR ...

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