Von Kármán
Americannoun
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The spacecraft landed in the Von Kármán crater in January, marking the first time a probe has ever visited the Moon’s far side.
From Nature ● May 14, 2019
The robotic probe throttled itself down on January 3 within the Von Kármán Crater in the moon’s South Pole-Aitken Basin.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 7, 2019
It landed in the Von Kármán, a flat feature about 110 miles wide that sits inside a larger basin near the moon’s south pole.
From New York Times ● Jan. 3, 2019
When Von Kármán and others founded JPL in 1944 to develop rocket technology, Qian was given a security clearance and brought on to work on classified weapons research.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 14, 2018
With Von Kármán gone, the reports themselves were a foreboding, Cassandra-like vision of the future that military planners could ignore only at their peril.
From Salon ● Apr. 27, 2013
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