On July 20, we celebrated 50 years since Neil Armstrong uttered the famous phrase “That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind” as he stepped out of Apollo 11 and onto the surface of the moon. Armstrong was the first human to set foot on our satellite, but he wasn’t the last—Buzz Aldrin, for example, stepped out just 19 min after him. NASA hopes they will become two of many when the Artemis program successfully delivers a new cargo of humans—the first woman and the next man—to the lunar south pole. That is the challenge set forth by the current administration, which aims to make the Artemis program reality by as soon as 2024. In the meantime, NASA also has plans to build a small space station that would orbit the moon by 2023. If, like many, you are fascinated by the moon landing and would
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Chemical & Engineering News ; 97 , 29 ; 2
2019-07-22
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