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Author Archives: Jean Creighton

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Posted inScience and Nature, Talkers

Five moon-landing innovations that changed life on Earth

by Jean Creighton July 17, 2019

Much of the technology common in daily life today originates from the drive to put a human being on the moon. This effort reached its pinnacle when Neil Armstrong stepped off the Eagle landing module onto the lunar surface 50 years ago. As a NASA airborne astronomy ambassador and director of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee […]

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