"And since we're a lunar company, obviously we are interested in lunar astronauts. There are only a few people that have that experience." Golden Spike is one of a growing number of private companies aiming to send people to space. Some, such as suborbital space outfit Virgin Galactic, ...
50 years ago today, 210,000 miles away from earth (about 330,000 km), three astronauts were suddenly disturbed by “bang-whump-shudder” that shook their tiny spacecraft. One of the astronauts saw the hull physically flex. Within seconds, the cabin was illuminated with warning lights, and ...
The mission stands today as an example of the dangers of space travel and of NASA's innovative minds working together to save lives on the fly. The Apollo 13 mission celebrated its50th anniversaryon April 11, 2020. Related:NASA's moonwalking Apollo astronauts: Where are they now? You may l...
Today marks the 50th anniversary of the launch of Apollo 13, one of the most dramatic missions in the history of space flight. Launched from the Kennedy Space Center on April 11, 1970, the mission was intended to carry three astronauts to the moon. But two days into the mission, an oxyg...
But when the men went back into the Eagle, theyleft the camera behind. The object remains on the moon today. That camera isn’t alone. Apollo astronauts “had to limit the amount of material they were bringing back on the spacecraft wi...
Apollo 8 and 10 were both flights around the moon (with no lunar landing). Apollo 13 was originally scheduled to land on the moon butfamously experienced a dangerous explosionthat forced the astronauts to come back to Earth early -- but safely. ...
And after he helped me get my sound to work, I wondered whether something like this even was possible with the Apollo astronauts. Sure, he said. They had real-time video. They just used it sparingly, saving the limited bandwidth. 鈥Woods, Mark...
[Today I learned] Judith Love Cohen, who helped create the Abort-Guidance System which rescued the Apollo 13 astronauts, went to work on the day she was in labor. She took a printout of a problem she was working on to the hospital. She called her boss and said she finished the problem...
Apollo 13, the 1995 motion picture directed by Ron Howard, is the true story of Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert, a team of astronauts reassigned to a space flight with diminished preparation time. This routine mission to the moon suddenly becomes a survival mission to safely return...
Mission control engineers congratulate one another after Apollo 13's splashdown. NASA It's not all academic. Punctuating the voices of astronauts, engineers and journalists are those of other celebrities, such as Walt Disney and Bob Hope, underscoring the public's fascination with the space program...