The Apollo 11 crew in front of a mock-up of the Lunar Excursion Module Kennedy Space Center Florida June 1969 by NASA is ...
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 14, 1969, the Apollo 12 mission launched to the moon. This was the second moon landing of the Apollo program. The ...
Using Einstein’s theory of general relativity, physicists found that clocks on the Moon would run 56 microseconds faster than ...
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Min Read Lunar module pilot Walter Cunningham writes with a space pen as he performs flight tasks on the ninth day of the ...
After someone called police to report that a vehicle sat through several green lights at an intersection, an investigating officer found a driver and a passenger sleeping in a running truck in ...
Humans first visited the Moon in 1969.  The last time we went was 1972, over 50 years ago. Back then, astronauts in the Apollo program made their journeys in spacecraft that relied on remarkably ...
The Nov. 16 celebration is also themed “Techs On Deck” to encourage youth toward choosing science and technology careers.
In 1969, Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon's surface—a momentous engineering and science feat marked ...
Buzz Aldrin endorsed Donald Trump for the U.S. presidential election. In a statement, he expressed that Trump, during his presidential reign, renewed America's interest in space.