NASA began the countdown Monday for humanity's first launch to the moon in 53 years. The 32-story Space Launch System rocket is poised to blast off Wednesday evening with four astronauts. After a day ...
A space historian explains why it has taken over 50 years to return to the Moon. Emily Margolis While I was leading a tour of the National Air and Space Museum in January 2026, a visitor posed this ...
Early Apollo Missions: Earth Orbit Apollo missions flew unmanned until October 11, 1968, when Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele and ...
WASHINGTON, DC / ACCESS Newswire / June 11, 2026 / Space Blue, the pioneering organization behind the historic Lunaprise lunar time capsule and Lunar Records archive, a HWAL and SI Blue company, that ...
The three men set to blast off on Apollo 1—rookie astronaut Roger Chaffee and veterans Virgil “Gus” Grissom and Ed White—had issues with the new craft as well. They voiced their concerns about the ...
In this photo provided by NASA, astronaut Charles M. Duke Jr. collects lunar samples at Station No. 1 during the first Apollo 16 extravehicular activity at the Descartes landing site, April 21, 1972. ...