The Moon has a smell. It has no air, but it has a smell. Each pair of Apollo astronauts to land on the Moon tramped lots of Moon dust back into the lunar module—it was deep gray, fine-grained and extremely clingy—and when they unsnapped their helmets, Neil Armstrong...
There was the possibility that something hadn't been done correctly at KSC in preparing Apollo 13 for its mission. However, neither Wendt nor his colleagues wanted to believe they were at fault, and no one wasted any time doing so. Wendt told SPACE.com that once the emergency began, he ...
In its latest fifth flight on Oct. 13, the rocket defied expectations by successfully sending the booster back to the launch pad, where it was caught mid-air with mechanical launch tower arms, on its very first try. The flight ended with a controlled splash down in the water, just as pl...
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From the late 1950s to the mid-1970s, the two superpowers were embroiled in a bitter competition over who could 'conquer' outer space first. Beginning with the launch of the first satellite and culminating with a joint mission between the two superpowers, the space race was a unique period...
Apollo 11’s Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the first humans to land on the Moon in 1969. NASA intends to return astronauts to the lunar body as soon as 2026 on the Artemis III mission. By Andrew Wulfeck Source FOX Weather Facebook Twitter Email Copy Link See what's new in the ...
To date, the Starship upper stage of the Super Heavy rocket has yet to fly an orbital trajectory. Instead, the second stage was lost during the first three flights before making a controlled reentry into the Indian Ocean on the fourth and fifth test flights of the vehicle, including the la...
The mission is goingvery well, with only a few minor glitches.Communications were lostfor 47 minutes on November 23 when ground controllers were reconfiguring a link between the spacecraft and the Deep Space Network, for example, but it was resolved with no impact on Orion. NASA has two Orio...
quickly waned. Television coverage slacked. Missions—to conduct research, repair satellites, and build theInternational Space Station—failed to ignite popular imaginations the way a moon landing had. For many Americans, shuttle flights carried little of the bravado and romance of theApolloera. ...
Apollo 13 was a mission that tested NASA and its astronauts to the hilt. It was the thirtheenth scheduled lunar space exploration mission, scheduled for liftoff at the thirtheenth minute after the thirteenth hour. It was supposed to travel to the Moon, and three astronauts would attempt a l...