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Prepare for Perseids
Are you ready for the Perseids? This shower, part of the debris stream of comet Swift-Tuttle, starts in mid-to-late July and lasts through most of August. While most nights will showcase a few meteors each hour, the peak of the Perseids could bring a brief "burst" of up to two hundred beautiful "shooting stars" an hour.
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Apollo 11 launches from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 9:32 a.m. EDT, July 16, 1969. Aboard the Apollo 11 spacecraft were astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, commander; Michael Collins, command module pilot; and Buzz Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot. Apollo 11 was the United States’ first lunar landing mission. While Armstrong and Aldrin descended in the Lunar Module “Eagle” to explore the Sea of Tranquility region of the Moon, Collins remained in lunar orbit.
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