KREEP and craters filled the view as the Orion spacecraft soared over sites where 12 astronauts wandered the surface during Apollo.
landing mission in 2025 or so, NASA plans to recover a wider range of rocks than basalts, which represented most of what Apollo astronauts found at their equatorial landing sites, Gross explained.
"We don't really expect a lot of basalts there," Gross said, referring to the south polar region of the moon whereDuring the broadcast, Orion was flying roughly 2,000 miles above the sites where a dozen Apollo astronauts journeyed on the lunar surface during short excursions between 1969 and 1972. All told, six missions touched down: Apollos 11, 12, 14, 15, 16 and 17;"Apollo wasn't so much about science," Gross said.
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