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Apollo 12 back in orbit

Washington, USA - a part of a space capsule comes back in the atmosphere

It’s the first time that the Earth captures an object from the solar trajectory. The object in issue, that was christened "j00è3", is not common spatial iron scrap but a piece of the rocket Saturn with which it was launched the mythical Apollo 12: the space capsule that landed on the Moon on November 1969. The discovery dates back to the 3 of September but the astronomers of the Jet Propulsion La...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 33790
Rome, Italy, 09/24/2002 16:06
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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