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Altair Sound MMXII

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At 00:12 Apollo 10 launches; 01:19 Jim Lovell reads the Apollo 8 Christmas Day message; 01:20 the Apollo 11 Eagle lands on the Moon. Altair is the prime star in the constellation Aquila, the Eagle; it has also been used as a word for “eagle”. Altair is the name of the new lander, originally from Project Constellation, the former Moon program. Its project patch features the eagle from the Apollo 11 mission patch. Altair
2 (with Orion 15) had been scheduled to return humans to the Moon later in this decade. Altair 1 with Orion 13 would have been a dress rehearsal in lunar orbit, like Apollo 10. The Altair lander is currently destined for an asteroid and Mars. I believe that we need the Moon. Mission audio courtesy of NASA.

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