Science

Orbiter photos show lunar modules from first 2 moon landings more than 50 years laterAstronauts first walked on the moon in July 1969 and again on the November 1969 Apollo 12 missionRecent photos taken by India’s Space Research Organization moon orbiter, known as Chandrayaan 2, clearly show the Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 landing sites more than 50 years later. (India Space Research Organization )
Apollo 11 astronaut Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin deploys a scientific experiment package on the surface of the moon. In the background is the Lunar Module, as is a flag of the United States. (Photo by Neil Armstrong/NASA/Getty Images) (Neil Armstrong/NASA/Getty Images)
Beside NASA's Apollo 12 'Intrepid' Lunar Module, American astronaut Alan Bean unloads equipment from the Modular Equipment Stowage Assembly (MESA) on the surface of the moon, November 19, 1969. (NASA/Interim Archives/Getty Images)

Newly discovered asteroid turns out to be Tesla Roadster launched into spaceSpaceX launched the Tesla Roadster on the maiden flight of the spacecraft company's huge Falcon Heavy rocket in 2018Seven years after the SpaceX CEO launched a Tesla Roadster into orbit, astronomers from the Minor Planet Center at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Massachusetts confused it with an asteroid earlier this month. (SpaceX via Getty Images)
SpaceX launched the Tesla Roadster on the maiden flight of SpaceX's huge Falcon Heavy rocket in February 2018. (Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images))
Elon Musk's SpaceX launched his former personal car into orbit at the time. (Justin Sullivan)