The Apollo program was the first to bring humans to the moon. Even though the program began in the early 1960s until 1972, with 12 astronauts walking the moon's surface during this time frame, there ...
We explore the dramatic story of NASA's Apollo Program, beginning with President Kennedy's ambitious deadline for a lunar landing in response to Soviet success with Sputnik and cosmonaut Yuri Gargarin ...
As soon as the morning of 29 August, the largest rocket to ever fly will lift off from Nasa’s launch complex 39B at Kennedy Space Center, in Florida. The Artemis I mission, the first flight of Nasa’s ...
San Diego Air & Space Museum. (Photo by Chris Stone/Times of San Diego) Those who planned, ran, and piloted the Apollo Program will be venerated Saturday at the San Diego Air & Space Museum for the ...
It’s the most iconic image of our planet. Decades before the Artemis II mission, a group of astronauts experienced an Earth rising for the first time. This Earth Day, hear their story and the story of ...
In the summer of 1969, NASA succeeded in manning a mission to the Moon. But since the end of the Apollo program in 1972, no one has returned. And when Americans think of the legacy of Apollo, ...
While landing humans on the moon was indeed historic and the boot-kicked lunar dust has settled, perhaps that achievement had more of an impact on society than we realized. When you purchase through ...
The veteran of a near-disastrous Gemini 8 mission, Armstrong kept his cool despite repeated computer program alarms and a guidance system that tried to land in a field of boulders. Conrad’s pinpoint ...
More than 50 years after the Apollo 17 Moon rocks returned to Earth, researchers are still uncovered surprising new details about their composition. Under the new administration, the agency is moving ...
[Mike Stewart] powers up a thrust meter from an Apollo lunar module. This bit of kit passed inspection on September 25, 1969. Fortunately [Mike] was able to dig up some old documentation which ...