NASA’s acting leader seeks to keep his job with new lunar lander announcement

NASA acting administrator Sean Duffy made two television appearances on Monday morning in which he shook up the space ...

China Might Put Back Astronauts On The Moon Before NASA

The US was the last country to put humans on the moon's surface in 1972, but China is shaping up to edge out NASA to be the ...

Giant Leap: The Technology That Made The Apollo Mission Successful

For many, it's common knowledge that the Apollo 11 mission successfully landed on the moon, but the technology that got them ...
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OTD in Space - October 11: Apollo 7 Launches the 1st Apollo Crew into Orbit

On. Oct. 11, 1968, Apollo 7 launched into space with NASA astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele and Walter Cunningham. This ...
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NASA astronaut James McDivitt, who led Gemini and Apollo missions, dies at 93

James McDivitt, a former NASA astronaut who commanded the Gemini IV and Apollo 9 missions, died in his sleep last week in Tucson, Arizona, NASA said in a statement Monday. He was 93. McDivitt ...
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Naming Apollo: Why NASA chooses Greek gods as names

The Mercury program's name, chosen by Abe Silverstein in 1958, was inspired by the Roman messenger god, aligning with a pre-existing tradition of using Greco-Roman mythological names for space ...
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How 3 Astronauts Survived the Most Dangerous Rescue in NASA History

Apollo 13 suffered a catastrophic oxygen tank explosion en route to the Moon, forcing NASA to improvise one of the greatest ...