Forty-nine years after its editorial mocking Goddard, on July 17, 1969—the day after the launch of Apollo 11—The New York Timespublished a short item under the headline “A Correction.” The three-paragraph statement summarized its 1920 editorial, and concluded: ...
Using pressurized nitrogen as a propellant, the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU) allowed astronauts to perform un-tethered spacewalks away from the shuttle. The MMU assisted with satellite retrieval and servicing during several early shuttle flights. Use of MMUs was discontinued after the Challenger disas...
On January 27, 1967 while training for what would be the first Apollo mission (AS-204) a fire was sparked in the oxygen rich capsule which killed Grissom and his two fellow Astronauts Edward White and Roger. That mision was re-dubed Apollo I in honor of the crew. Grissom was a member...
In the 1950s, the Cold War sparked a race to visit Earth's moon with flybys, robots, and crewed missions. Here's what we discovered—and what's next.
Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), Armstrong, with astronauts Michael Collins and Edwin Aldrin, lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Apollo 11 passed into the gravitational influence (pull of gravity) of the moon on July 18 and circled the moon twice. Armstrong and Aldrin entered ...
American astronauts walked on the Moon’s surface just 10 years after the first human flight. Neil Armstrong and Edwin (“Buzz”) Aldrin, and Michael Collins members of the Apollo 11 crew, accomplished the first lunar landing on July 20, 1969. Around July 1969 and December 1972 there were ...
Collaboration with NASA dates back to the 1970s, with the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project of 1975, which saw a Russian Soyuz spacecraft and an American Apollo spacecraft meet in Earth orbit. The astronauts and cosmonauts worked together in space briefly before heading off for their own separate missi...
Many of you will remember the terrible catastrophe that befell the astronauts of Apollo I. On January 27, 1967, while still training for the first space expedition that would eventually lead to a manned mission to the Moon, all three crew members were killed in a fire that engulfed the cabi...
The Apollo lunar flights ended in 1972, butNASA saidit receives about 60 research requests for samples each year. More than 2,500 scientific papers had been published through 2015 using Apollo data, according to the space agency. Related articleRock collected by Apollo 17 astronauts reveals moon...