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 ...

Moon's largest crater harbors secret on south pole where NASA astronauts will land

Could Artemis III astronauts collect some lunar samples that shed light on the moon's mysterious past? That's what a team of ...
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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 ...

NASA Announced A Date For The First Crewed Mission To The Moon In 50 Years

Humans haven't been to the moon in decades, but NASA's Artemis II mission is about to change that, and perhaps even sooner ...
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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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Moon Landing 50: NASA takes a look back at Apollo 11's launch day

HOUSTON, Texas -- NASA is celebrating its 50th anniversary of the Moon Landing this Saturday, and they're taking a look back at that historic day in 1969. NASA's history office shared some very ...
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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 ...