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 ...
As the astronauts flying on NASA's final space shuttle mission prepare for their return to Earth tomorrow (July 21), they took a moment to pay tribute to another historic space milestone: the 42nd ...
Even if Apollo was not America’s first space exploration program and, as it turned out, not even the most defining one from a scientific perspective, it is perhaps the most important to date as it’s ...
When the Space Shuttle program ends this month, a lot of careers will end as well. One of them is a man whose career spans 50 years of the U.S. space program, Boeing engineer Stan Barauskas, who ...
In 1972, Apollo 16 astronaut and moon walker Charlie Duke left a family photo on the lunar surface. Today that photo is long gone. But Duke’s visage is heading back to the moon this week, in a novel ...
NASA will replace the space shuttle with a reusable spacecraft shaped like the Apollo capsule that first took U.S. astronauts to the moon in 1969, the U.S. space agency said yesterday.<@SM><@SM> The ...
The flame trench beneath launch complex 39A (LC-39A) recently tasted fire for the first time since 2011 when the Space Shuttle Atlantis lifted off on the final mission in the program. SpaceX completed ...
WASHINGTON — NASA will honor astronaut Thomas K. “Ken” Mattingly, II, with the presentation of an Ambassador of Exploration Award for his contributions to the U.S. space program. During a ceremony on ...
On the annual Day of Remembrance, "Apollo 1," a film that highlights a NASA tragedy during the race to the moon, was ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Apollo 16 astronaut and moon walker Charlie Duke left a family photo on the lunar surface in 1972. It’s long gone, but a digital ...
As the astronauts flying on NASA's final space shuttle mission prepare for their return to Earth tomorrow (July 21), they took a moment to pay tribute to another historic space milestone: the 42nd ...