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Apollo 12 tribute from space: Fifty years to the day after Apollo 12 launched to the moon the International Space Station crew dressed as Apollo flight controllers in tribute. Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, Drew Morgan and Luca Parmitano wore skinny black ties and horn-rimmed glasses to thank those who made the second crewed moon landing possible. Morgan also sported a commemorative Apollo 12 mission patch on loan from the Smithsonian's collection.
Gold Medals for 'Hidden Figures': NASA's "hidden figures" will be awarded the highest civilian honor bestowed by Congress. An act signed into law on Friday (Nov. 8) authorizes that mathematicians Katherine Johnson and Dorothy Vaughan, along with engineers Mary Jackson and Christine Darden be presented Congressional Gold Medals for their service to the space program. A fifth medal will be awarded to recognize all of the women whose contributions led to NASA's success in the space race to the moon.
Apollo sample unsealed: NASA unsealed a previously untouched Apollo lunar sample on Tuesday (Nov. 5), for both its scientific study and to prepare techniques for future Artemis moon missions. The first opening of a "drive tube" core sample in 40 years, scientists at Johnson Space Center's Lunar Curation Laboratory unsealed the Apollo 17 soil container in support of NASA's Apollo Next-Generation Sample Analysis program. A second sample, sealed on the moon in 1972, is slated to be opened in January.
Cookies in space: The first cookie dough to be baked in space was launched on the S.S. Alan Bean to the International Space Station on Saturday (Nov. 2). Together with the zero g oven needed to bake it, the chocolate chip cookie dough provided by DoubleTree by Hilton also marks the first foray for a hotel to offer its hospitality off Earth.
Beyond the Red Moon: "For All Mankind" is now streaming on Apple TV+, offering a new look at the space race. In Ronald D. Moore's alternate history, the first man to walk on the moon is a Soviet cosmonaut, forcing NASA's plans to change. But as the first episodes reveal, the space agency has already diverged from the real-life NASA.
S.S. Alan Bean: Fifty years after he became the fourth person to walk on the moon, Alan Bean is being remembered with the naming of a Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft. The Apollo 12 astronaut is the namesake for the company's 12th cargo capsule to deliver supplies to the International Space Station. The S.S. Alan Bean will launch on an Antares rocket from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility.
Artemis art: A new NASA graphic trades the pareidolic "man in the moon" for a woman on the moon. Presented by NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine on Wednesday (Oct. 23), the artwork features Artemis, the Greek goddess of the moon and namesake for the agency's lunar program, drawn "in the highlights and shadows of the crescent moon topography." NASA's Artemis program aims to land the first woman and next man on the lunar surface by 2024.
All-female EVA: The first "unmanned," or all women spacewalk made history Friday (Oct. 18) at the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir, both Expedition 61 flight engineers, ventured outside the orbiting laboratory to replace a power controller that unexpectedly failed. The extravehicular activity or EVA used a spacesuit with a link to the first U.S. woman to walk in space, Kathryn Sullivan, 35 years ago this month.
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