This is the dramatic story of NASA's Apollo Program, beginning with President Kennedy's ambitious deadline for a lunar landing by the end of the decade, in response to Soviet success with Sputnik and ...
In November 1969, Apollo 12 astronauts Commander Charles "Pete" Conrad, Command Module Pilot (CMP) Richard F. Gordon, and ...
On November 9, 1967, NASA launched the powerful new Saturn V rocket on its maiden voyage. The Saturn V was 363 feet tall.
Astronauts on the Apollo missions of the 1960s and '70s collected rocks ... Referring to Mars missions and a return to the ...
NASA The Apollo 12 spacecraft launches from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida in this image from Nov. 14, 1969, with ...
Why would all of them lie? That doesn’t make sense. Now consider this: More than 400,000 people worked on the Apollo program ...
Jenni Gibbons was inspired to become an astronaut at a young age by Canada’s early space explorers, including Roberta Bondar. Now, the Artemis II backup crew member is hoping she can motivate the next ...
Using Einstein’s theory of general relativity, physicists found that clocks on the Moon would run 56 microseconds faster than ...
When it comes to space exploration, “I would think that this next [Trump] Administration is going to be a continuation of the ...
Lauren Arkell of Brentwood, NH is on missions team for Blue Ghost, a 6½-foot-tall robotic moon lander lauding aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
In orbit, the astronauts aborted two spacewalks, both under unusual circumstances. Then, on October 25, one of the astronauts ...