They were the pioneers of space exploration - the 24 Nasa astronauts who travelled to the Moon in the Apollo missions of the 1960s and 1970s. The loss of Apollo 13 commander Jim Lovell, who guided the ...

July 9, 2009 at Ames Research Center’s N201 auditorium. The Apollo moon missions are among history’s greatest technological achievements and greatest scientific explorations. But they were also a ...

THE NEXT LAUNCH WINDOW IS EXPECTED FOR THIS FRIDAY AFTERNOON. FELICIA: AND NASA’S FIRST MOON MISSION IN 50 YEARS HAS MANY THINKING BACK TO THE PROGRAM THAT STARTED IT ALL THE APOLLO MISSIONS IN THE ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The most suspenseful reality show in human history began at 9:32 a.m. on July 16, 1969, witnessed by more than 500 million television viewers and an ...

Apollo 9 commander Jim McDivitt, as seen on board the command module "Gumdrop" in March 1969. Former NASA astronaut James McDivitt, who commanded the first U.S. mission to conduct a spacewalk before ...

NASA has long captured the imagination of humanity with its ambitions. We reached the moon, built space stations, placed telescopes in orbit, and unlocked the secrets of the universe with NASA's ...

Even though humans have pondered the moon since the first of us looked skyward, there is still much we still don’t know about it. One of these unsolved questions is its origin story. We think the moon ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

It’s been more than half a century since humans last walked on the Moon, but we’re on the verge of doing so again. NASA’s ambitious Artemis programme aims to build the first lunar space station, so we ...

James McDivitt, a former NASA astronaut who commanded the Gemini IV and Apollo 9 missions, died in his sleep last week in Tucson, Arizona, NASA said in a statement Monday. He was 93. McDivitt was ...