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THIS DAY IN HISTORY: NASA Awarded The First Apollo Development Contract In 1961

On August 10, 1961, NASA awarded the first Apollo development contract to the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory to design the ...

Opinion - A forgotten mission: NASA once planned to send astronauts to Venus

NASA, the Soviet Union, the European Space Agency and Japan have sent a number of uncrewed missions to Venus, with some, like ...

Opinion: A forgotten mission: NASA once planned to send astronauts to Venus

One of the concepts, a Venus flyby mission, would have been a bold undertaking indeed.

In 1972, Apollo 17 carried five desert mice around the Moon: Each had cosmic-ray detectors implanted beneath its scalp to measure deep-space radiation

Five pocket mice traveled around the Moon on Apollo 17 in 1972. These animals carried radiation detectors implanted beneath ...
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Apollo 13 launches into space | Apollo 13

Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks), Fred Haise (Bill Paxton), and Jack Swigert (Kevin Bacon) experience the raw, earth-shaking power of ...

Pen that saved the Apollo 11 astronauts sells for over $800K at auction

Sotheby’s Space Exploration auction features the life-saving instrument, a Snoopy pin, space-flown flags, and more.
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THIS DAY IN HISTORY: Apollo 15 Deep Core Sample Continues to Reveal Moon’s History 55 Years Later

As Apollo 15 returned to Earth 55 years ago today, the spacecraft carried a first-of-its-kind lunar sample that would ...

A SpaceX Rocket Is About to Crash Into the Moon. Here's Everything You Need to Know

And it's not the first instance of a lunar crash.

This year could mark a space-race tipping point. Here’s what to know about China’s secretive program

China’s space program is having a landmark year, and clues to which nation is pulling ahead in the new moon race may be ...

At Kennedy Space Center, NASA presses toward Artemis III launch next year

NASA is moving ahead with the planned 2027 Artemis III mission. Work continues on the rocket at Kennedy Space Center.
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How the Apollo spacecraft functions

This video details the journey to the moon and the successful landing on the lunar surface during the Apollo 11 mission. It highlights that one astronaut remained in orbit in the Command/Service ...

5 years before Apollo 11, a landlocked African nation tried to send teenagers to the Moon to beat the US and USSR, but the failed mission was probably never about th…

Edward Mukuka Nkoloso led Zambia's ambitious space program after independence. He trained teenage "Afronauts" using ...