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OTD In Space - January 4: NASA Cancels Apollo 20 Moon Mission

On 1970, NASA cancelled the Apollo 20 moon mission. This came just six months after Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil ...
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Apollo, shuttle astronaut Ken Mattingly dies at 87

Read full article: Apollo 7 astronaut Walter Cunningham dead at 90 A spectator looks at a tiny piece of moon rock encased in a plastic globe, on display at the an exhibition commemorating the 50th ...
Astronomy

The People’s Spaceship: NASA, the Shuttle Program, and Public Engagement after Apollo

The following is an excerpt from The People’s Spaceship: NASA, the Shuttle Program, and Public Engagement after Apollo by Amy Paige Kaminski. The book will be published June 11, 2024, by the ...
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NASA events commemorate 55th anniversary of Apollo 11 moon landing

July 15 (UPI) --NASA is recognizing the 55th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing this month with a variety of events and engagements that started on Monday. Apollo 11 landed on the moon on July 20, ...
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Astronaut Ken Mattingly, who flew to the moon on Apollo 16, has died at 87

Astronaut Ken "T.K." Mattingly has died. He circled the moon as command module pilot on Apollo 16 and later flew the space shuttle. But he's probably best known for the mission he didn't get to fly: ...
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The incredible story of Alameda’s USS Hornet, the aircraft carrier that assisted Apollo 11

It is a lesser-known note in history that Neil Armstrong’s first words back on Earth after exiting the Apollo 11 space capsule were: “Bzerblizerblz.” It was July 24, 1969, and Armstrong and his fellow ...
The New York Times

Cosmic Luck: NASA’s Apollo 11 Moon Quarantine Broke Down

A review of archives suggests that efforts to protect Earth from contamination by any organism brought back from the lunar surface were mostly for show. By Sarah Scoles When the astronauts of Apollo ...