For that reason, NASA made photography a high priority during the Apollo missions, redesigning cameras that could operate in the punishing environment of space and inventing ultra-thin film that ...

NASA's most remarkable achievements include launching Explorer 1 in 1958, the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing, and the Hubble ...

Godspeed, Odysseus! The six-legged robotic spacecraft could become the first American vehicle to land on the moon since ...

Frank Borman, commander of Apollo 8, wrote in his autobiography, "The NASA of more recent years got the idea that you could put almost any highly intelligent person into a spacecraft and qualify ...

Private spaceflight is not a new concept. In the United States ... is a space capsule similar to the spacecraft of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs, as well as Russia’s Soyuz spacecraft.

Firefly’s Blue Ghost marks a new era in commercial space, proving private industry’s role in space exploration and ...

the first mission to send humans around the moon, Apollo 9 and the mid-flight explosion-plagued Apollo 13, as well as concept logos for rockets from when McClelland worked at the Martin Company ...

But the Apollo project required a number of more advanced achievements before a lunar landing was feasible: astronauts had to show they could survive in space long enough to journey to the moon ...

His explanation and demonstration of the Apollo digital ranging system is a ... The average Hackaday reader should be familiar with the concept of determining the distance of a faraway object ...

The Apollo moon program resulted in a legacy of thousands of images - all of them of immense value as both scientific and documentary records. Yet 30 years after the event most of them speak only ...