For many, it's common knowledge that the Apollo 11 mission successfully landed on the moon, but the technology that got them ...
Saturday, July 20, is Moon Day and the 55th anniversary of the first Apollo 11 moonwalk. Here’s a look at the Apollo program and the new Artemis program to return to the lunar surface. NASA will now ...
Born from Cold War rivalry yet destined to unite humanity, the Apollo program became the most extraordinary journey ever ...
This is the dramatic story of NASA's Apollo Program, beginning with President Kennedy's ambitious deadline for a lunar landing by the end of the decade, in response to Soviet success with Sputnik and ...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Those who planned, ran and piloted the Apollo Program will be venerated Saturday at the San Diego Air & Space Museum for the "Legacy of Apollo" gala celebration. The museum will host ...
I just watched a documentary titled “Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of Apollo,” and it got me to thinking about our current national situation. Fifty years ago the men and women who ran our Apollo ...
In the summer of 1969, NASA succeeded in manning a mission to the Moon. But since the end of the Apollo program in 1972, no one has returned. And when Americans think of the legacy of Apollo, ...
On. Oct. 11, 1968, Apollo 7 launched into space with NASA astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele and Walter Cunningham. This ...
(Gray News) - Apollo astronaut Thomas Kenneth “Ken” Mattingly died at age 87 on Tuesday, NASA announced in a news release. Born in Chicago, he graduated from Auburn University in 1958 and started his ...
The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project brought Soviet cosmonauts and NASA astronauts together in the first international human spaceflight. By Becky Ferreira He and his team of NASA engineers jumped into ...
Margot Lee Shetterly's Hidden Figures (HarperCollins, 2016) shows there are many ways to approach the U.S. space story. Here are a few more books covering parts of the Apollo universe: A Man on the ...