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    From Retrograde@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jun 6 02:22:16 2025
    From the «sky free of satellites» department:
    Title: 60 years ago the US took its first walk in space with Gemini 4
    Author: Richard Speed
    Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2025 17:31:22 +0000
    Link: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/06/04/first_us_spacewalk_60_years_ago/

    Four years later, Apollo 11 landed on the Moon

    It is 60 years since Ed White became the first American to float outside a spacecraft.…

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jun 7 12:00:39 2025
    On 06 Jun 2025 02:22:16 GMT, Retrograde <[email protected]d>
    wrote:

    Apollo 11 landed on the Moon

    lunar module.....

    The Apollo spacecraft had three parts: a command module (CM) with a
    cabin for the three astronauts, the only part that returned to Earth;
    a service module (SM), which supported the command module with
    propulsion, electrical power, oxygen, and water; and a lunar module
    (LM) that had two stages--a descent stage for landing on the Moon and
    an ascent stage to place the astronauts back into lunar orbit.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11

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