Credit: NASA/JPL
Before Apollo 11 Commander Neil Armstrong stepped off the lunar module ladder to plant a boot on the Moon, he leaned down and looked at the lander’s footpads to see how far they had settled into the powder-like ground at Tranquility Base. Besides assuaging a lingering operational concern that the...
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