The Apollo landing sites on the moon would become a historic preservation area under a bill before Congress. The proposal is to nominate the sites as UNESCO World Heritage sites at the U.N. There are obstacles. Under the Outer Space Treaty of 1967, no nation can claim the moon as ...
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera snapped its best look yet of the Apollo 11 landing site on the moon. The image, which was released on March 7, 2012, even shows the remnants of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin's historic first steps on the surface around the Lunar Module.(Image credit...
NASA’s Orion capsule is on its way home from the moon to wrap up a three-week test flight. The capsule and its test dummies came within 80 miles of the far side of the moon Monday. December 6, 2022 NASA capsule on way to moon after launch by giant new rocket November 17, 2022...
Apollo 14 landed near Fra Mauro crater in February 1971. On the first moon walk, the astronauts set up the lunar monitoring equipment known as the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP) to the west of the landing site and collected just over 42 kilograms (about 92 pounds) of lunar...
In the 1960s, experts drew on the best science of the time to show how humans might live and work in lunar style.
Kennedy declared, “We choose to go to the Moon in this decade,” setting this nation on an accelerated path to landing a man on the Moon. That same year, I became a member of the Grumman Guidance and Control group, and from 1963 to 1966, participated in the design of t...
PRIME-1’s destination is the Moon’s South Pole – new territory far from all the Apollo landing sites – a location very interesting because NASA has previously detected water there from space. However, gathering more accurate data requires PRIME-1, like ALSD, to land and drill into the ...
A new bill introduced into the U.S. Congress would establish the Apollo Lunar Landing Sites National Historical Park on the moon. Called the Apollo Lunar Landing Legacy Act, the bill was introduced Monday (July 8) by Rep. Donna Edwards of (D-Md.) and was co-sponsored by Rep. Eddie Ber...
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has been in orbit around the moon since June 2009. The $504 million car-sized spacecraft first capturedclose-up images of the Apollo landing sitesin July 2009, which revealed new details about the sites and even spotted hardware that was left behind on the lun...
“Our history … is the most valuable and most vulnerable resource we have on the moon right now,” saysMichelle Hanlon, co-founder and CEO of For All Moonkind, a nonprofit dedicated to protecting lunar landing sites. Beyond these known o...