Posted on 07/21/2014 4:45:59 PM PDT by workerbee
When American astronauts make the next "giant leap" by launching to Mars, they will bring with them a memento from the first moon landing 45 years ago.
NASA on Monday will present the Kennedy Space Center in Florida with a mission patch that Apollo 11 crew mates Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins carried to the moon in 1969, collectSPACE has learned. The patch will be held at the spaceport until the first crew is ready to lift off for the Red Planet on a mission NASA plans for the 2030s.
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This is nothing but bullcrap. America isn’t going to send astronauts, or even anymore spacecraft to Mars anytime soon. Muslim outreach is NASA’s new mission.
His actual first words upon lunar touch down, immediately after engine shut off were, "I hope this GD thing starts back up".
I don't know who came up with that mankind thing.
We're too broke, so it won't be Americans taking the first steps on Mars.
Not in this fiscal lifetime anyway.
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