Firefly’s Blue Ghost Lander Bids Farewell to Earth on Its Way to the Moon
The Blue Ghost mission launched on Wednesday, January 15, on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and is currently around halfway ...
How NASA's Lunar Trailblazer will make a looping voyage to the moon
Before arriving at the moon, the small satellite mission will use the gravity of the sun, Earth, and moon over several months ...
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How an ancient asteroid strike carved out two grand canyons on the moon
New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons ...
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Auction offers Neil Armstrong's reply to NASA engineer's Apollo 11 mission patch ideas
Neil Armstrong was appreciative, but it was too late. The Apollo 11 crew had a design for the first moon landing. Armstrong's ...
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How did walking on the Moon affect the Apollo astronauts?
Strange as it may sound, where the astronauts sat (or "sat" – the crew actually stood) in the Apollo Lunar Module may have ...
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SkyTeam 11's Capt. Roy Taylor maps out the flight paths before tragic crash
SO WE KNOW THAT WE HAVE A PRESENCE DOWN THERE A SkyTeam 11's Capt. Roy Taylor details the flight paths prior to the tragic collision near Washington D.C. Wednesday night to shed light on what may ...
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On This Day: Apollo 14 blasts off for moon
In 1971, Apollo 14, the third U.S. mission to land on the moon, blasted off using a Saturn ... killing 270 people, including 11 on the ground. The convicted bomber died in 2012.