Moon back in NASA's court 50 years after first lunar landing but arguments for Mars grow
Fifty years after humanity's first lunar footsteps, the moon is back in NASA's court. The White House wants U.S. astronauts on the moon pronto — by 2024, a scant five years from now. The moon will serve as a critical proving ground, the thinking goes, ...
U.S., Italian and Russian astronauts flew to the International Space Station on Saturday in a launch coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. Alexander Skvortsov of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, NASA's Andrew Morgan and Luca Parmitano of the European Space ...
A moonstruck nation celebrated the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11's "giant leap" by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin at parties, races, ball games and concerts Saturday, toasting with Tang and gobbling MoonPies. At NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Aldrin showed Vice President Mike Pence the launchpad ...
Trump hosts Apollo 11 astronauts on moonshot anniversary, undercuts NASA on Mars plans
Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins reunited Friday, the eve of the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing. They gathered in the Oval Office with President Donald Trump, who got a rundown on his administration's plans to get astronauts back on the ...
To return to moon, NASA astronauts need new spacesuits and greater urgency, engineer says
Space engineer Pablo de Leon has designed two spacesuit prototypes for the moon and for Mars, and knows how long development takes. If NASA wants to meet its own deadline of returning to the moon by 2024, it needs to get a move on. "NASA still ...
Moon landing's 'Dish' telescope still transmitting from Australia
It is known as "The Dish" and it soars above a nondescript paddock in rural Australia. Without it, hundreds of millions of people would never have seen all of the generation-defining footage of Neil Armstrong walking on the moon 50 years ago. An estimated 600 ...
Wernher Von Braun: Apollo hero, rocket builder for Hitler, father
Wernher von Braun was the rocket engineer who designed the Nazi's dreaded V-2 missile that rained death on Allied cities in World War II, and later the visionary architect behind the Apollo program that put man on the moon. But to his children, he was ...
Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins returns to launchpad 50 years later
Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins returned Tuesday to the exact spot where he flew to the moon 50 years ago with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. Collins had the spotlight to himself this time — Armstrong has been gone for seven years and Aldrin canceled. ...
Robots to install telescopes to peer into cosmos from the moon
As the United States races to put humans back on the moon for the first time in nearly 50 years, a NASA-funded lab in Colorado aims to send robots there to deploy telescopes that will look far into our galaxy, remotely operated by orbiting ...
To the moon and back: 50 years on, a giant leap into the unknown
The first four days of Apollo 11's journey to the moon had gone according to plan, but just 20 minutes before landing, the atmosphere grew tense as the crew encountered a series of problems. It was July 20, 1969, and as the world followed the ...
The first steps on another world: Celebrating Apollo 11 at 50
Half a century ago, in the middle of a mean year of war, famine, violence in the streets and the widening of the generation gap, men from planet Earth stepped onto another world for the first time, uniting people around the globe in a ...
Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins: Apollo 11's ace, scholar and wordsmith
Mission commander Neil Armstrong was the flying ace, Buzz Aldrin the scholar. Michael Collins was a crack test pilot, too, but also a wordsmith who described the trio as "amiable strangers." Apollo 11's astronauts had six months to gel as a crew and prepare for ...
