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NASA is headed back to the moon after 50 years, sooner than you think
For the first time in more than half a century, astronauts are again training to fly around the moon, not as a distant dream but as a concrete mission with hardware on the pad and dates on the calendar.
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 target September 2025 for Artemis II, the first crewed ...
Four astronauts are about to become the first humans to venture near the moon in more than half a century since NASA's iconic Apollo era ended.
On Dec. 5, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson held a press conference at the space agency’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., and told the world that Project Artemis was yet again being delayed. The delay, which to many in the space industry didn’t come as ...
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OTD In Space - January 4: NASA Cancels Apollo 20 Moon Mission
On 1970, NASA cancelled the Apollo 20 moon mission. This came just six months after Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong became the first people to ever set foot on the moon. Instead of launching another crew of astronauts to the moon,
Illustration of a SpaceX Starship on the moon. Credit: SpaceX On March 7, 1967, a Red Bank, New Jersey, resident named F.C. Stetter sat down at their typewriter and wrote a letter to Sen. Clinton P. Anderson (D-N.M.), a fierce advocate for the United ...
While Alan Shepard played one of the worst rounds of Moon golf on record, an experiment was circling the Moon 34 times on board the Command Module.