Apollo

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Messages from Apollo astronauts Charlie Duke and Jim Lovell - recorded before he died last year - were played to the astronauts during their flight.

From BBC • Apr. 11, 2026

When the Apollo 11 astronauts departed the moon in 1969, they left behind a plaque with the words “We came in peace for all mankind.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026

The mission marks another step forward in NASA’s Artemis program, which aims to return humans to the moon for the first time since the Apollo era and eventually establish a sustained presence there.

From Salon • Apr. 11, 2026

Before Artemis II, the United States hadn't sent astronauts around the Moon since 1972 for the Apollo 17 mission -- the last of that famed space program that saw humans walk on the lunar surface.

From Barron's • Apr. 11, 2026

One of them, Cadmus, instead of looking vaguely here and there, went very sensibly to Delphi to ask Apollo where she was.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton