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In episode 2 of The Conversation's new podcast series, we look at how people reacted to the moon landing – and why some still believe it was a hoax.
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Articles on 50th anniversary of Moon landing
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In the future we might get sick of hearing people tell their stories about going to the Moon. Perhaps the Moon will just be like thinking about today’s Antarctica – a remote but accessible place.
On the 50th anniversary of man’s historic moon landing, Pedro Duque remembers how every child wanted to be an astronaut in 1969.
50 years after Apollo 11, a new exhibition considers artistic responses to our celestial neighbour. As we retreat from human space exploration, our relationship to the moon has become virtual.
Like the majority of people on the planet today, most people in our office are too young to have witnessed firsthand the Apollo 11 moon landing, which took place 50 years ago. It was a giant leap for mankind…
Did you know it’s a myth that Teflon came out of NASA?
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The first episode of a brand new podcast series to mark the 50th anniversary of the moon landings looks back at what going to the moon taught us and why we stopped sending people there.
Here is how our mobile phones compare with the computer that landed man on the moon in 1969.
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A new podcast series from The Conversation exploring the last 50 years of space exploration and the 50 years to come.
Tourism, mining and new settlements are possibilities for our Moon. But what rules and regulations should govern our behavior there?
A new study suggests that we should limit ourselves to developing just one eight of the solar system.
Objects left on the Moon are not just abandoned rockets and rovers. There is a lot of historic and sentimental memorabilia. Some of it hints at a mission that the first Moonwalkers almost forgot.
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Space Plasma Physicist, Imperial College London
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Podcast host, The Conversation
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Associate Professor in Archaeology and Space Studies, Flinders University
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Post Doctoral Research Fellow in Space Science, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Business Studies, Trinity College Dublin
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Professor of American Studies, University of Manchester
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Lecturer in Astronomy, Nottingham Trent University
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Professor of Planetary and Space Sciences, The Open University
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Professor Emeritus of Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University
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Operations Scientist, CSIRO
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Professor of Social Psychology, Anglia Ruskin University
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Professor of Planetary Geosciences, The Open University
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James Martin Research Fellow, Future of Humanity Institute & Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford
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Professor of Space Physics, Lancaster University
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Political Scientist, University of the Western Cape
