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BBC World Service and BBC Sounds have announced their multi-award winning podcast 13 Minutes To The Moon is to return with a ...
A Japanese company says a laser navigating tool doomed its lunar lander, causing it to crash into the moon. Officials for ...
Over 50 years have passed since humanity last set foot on the Moon during Apollo 17 in 1972. Commander Eugene Cernan, the ...
A supercomputer simulation of the Apollo 12 landing on the moon was created to "improve its understanding of plume-surface interactions," according to NASA. Credit: Patrick Moran, NASA Ames Research ...
If you bought the July 25, 1969 issue of the New York Times, a cheeky ad from Volkswagen celebrated the moon landing by ...
This Feb. 5, 1971, photo gives an excellent view of the Apollo 14 lunar module on the Moon's surface after landing. At left, we can see that the astronauts - Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell - deployed ...
Apollo 14, launched on January 31, thus became the third Moon landing mission since Apollo 11 led by Neil Armstrong. NASA says the landing module had just 60 seconds of fuel left when it touched down.
Following the historic year of 1969 that saw two successful Moon landings, 1970 opened on a more sober note. Ever-tightening federal budgets forced NASA to rescope its future lunar landing plans. The ...
In November 1969, Apollo 12 astronauts Commander Charles “Pete” Conrad, Command Module Pilot (CMP) Richard F. Gordon, and Lunar Module Pilot (LMP) Alan L. Bean completed the second crewed lunar ...
In November 1969, Apollo 12 astronauts Commander Charles "Pete" Conrad, Command Module Pilot (CMP) Richard F. Gordon, and Lunar Module Pilot (LMP) Alan L. Bean completed the second crewed lunar ...
A Rolex watch that was flown to the moon is now the most expensive astronaut timepiece to sell at auction. The personal GMT-Master chronometer worn by Edgar Mitchell sold for $2.2 million.