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Video reveals Apollo 14 astronauts’ crucial mistake on the Moon – Inverse
Using data from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, the agency recreated the Apollo 14 astronauts’ hike on the lunar surface.
On February 5, 1971, humans
successfully landed on the Moon for the third time as part of the Apollo 14 mission.
Astronauts Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell spent a total of 33 and a half hours on the Moon, performing two ‘Moonwalks’ during their stay. Fifty years later, data from NASAs Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter recreate what it was like to walk across the lunar surface during one of their mile-long hikes and a critical mistake.
NASA released the video Monday, recreating the Apollo 14 astronauts’…
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