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  Watch: How NASA Re-Created Moon's Surface in Arizona for Apollo Program

  July 20 at 9 a.m.

  Scientists blew up an area near Flagstaff to create lunar craters for astronauts.

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  Space Cowboys: How Arizona Prepared the Apollo Astronauts for the Moon

  July 18 at 7 a.m.

  Neil Armstrong and everyone else who stepped on the lunar surface did some training near Flagstaff or the Grand Canyon.Space

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  Vintage Photos of Apollo Astronauts Invading Arizona Before Going to the Moon

  July 18 at 7 a.m.

  Long before they first stepped onto the moon, Neil Armstrong and other the astronauts of the Apollo program came to Arizona to train. Back in the ‘60s and ‘70s, NASA brought its all-American space rangers to Flagstaff and elsewhere in Arizona to learn about lunar mapping and get schooled in interstellar geology. A lot of equipment was also tested here, including space suits, lunar rovers, scientific tools, and even a rocket pack. They even blew up a bunch of a small portion of the northern Arizona landscape in the name of science. Here’s a look back at how Arizona helped the Apollo program get to the moon.

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  5 Other Arizona Public Officials Who Were Busted for DUI

  June 3 at 8 a.m.

  An illustrious list.

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  Yarnell Hill Fire, Five Years Later: Lessons Not Learned and Five Potential Hot Spots

  Sunday, July 1, 2018 at 6:04 a.m.

  Weather and fuel conditions are so helpful in predicting fire behavior that state officials now rank the dangers of Arizona communities online.

• Five Years Later: A Look Back at the Investigative Photos of the Yarnell Hill Fire

  Friday, June 29, 2018 at 6 a.m.

  Nineteen of the 20 members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots were killed during the Yarnell Hill Fire on June 30, 2013. More than a half-million dollars in fines were levied against the Arizona State Forestry Division  for safety violations after an investigation by the Arizona Division of Occupational Safety and Health.  The report included dozens of photos of the fire, taken before and after the deaths of the hotshots. Some of the photos were taken by the fallen hotshots themselves.