Sunday 19 July 2009

Images of Moon Landings - 40 Years On

Images from the Apollo 14 landing sites have been sent back to Earth by Nasa's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) showing the lunar module and trail of footprints. Forty years after the original moon landings these are the first images to show the original sites. NASA are using this mission to scout out new landing sites for future exploration and possible colonisation.

Your Sunday questions are: -
  1. The first line of which city's underground railway system opened today in 1900?

  2. Brunel's SS Great Britain (right) was launched from which city today in 1843?

  3. Which former US Open and French Open men's singles tennis champion was born today in 1946 in Bucharest?
Yesterday's Answers: 1. William Makepeace Thackeray; 2. Bobby Brown ; 3. Germany (Messerschmitt Me-262)

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