Part of the Apollo 11 spacecraft may still be in orbit around the moon

By Jonathan O’Callaghan

The Apollo 11 ascent stage, photographed from the Command Module successful orbit astir the moon

MSFC/NASA

A discarded portion of the Apollo 11 spacecraft that helped instrumentality astronauts from the archetypal ever sojourn to the lunar aboveground whitethorn inactive beryllium successful orbit astir the moon, alternatively than having clang landed arsenic erstwhile thought.

On 20 July 1969, NASA astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made past arsenic the archetypal 2 humans to onshore connected the moon. They near the aboveground a time aboriginal utilizing the ascent signifier of their Eagle lander, …

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