And while most of the feats NASA pulled off in the heyday of the Space Race were surprising ... were key to helping plan for the Apollo landings. Lunar Orbiter 1 also managed to return the ...

Chang'e-3 landing site is indicated with a white square in this lunar map, a mosaic made with the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's Wide Angle Camera. The landing sites of the Apollo missions are in red.

A solar probe designed to study the sun's most mysterious and unknown regions launches on a 10-year journey. Jackson Ryan Former Science Editor Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a ...

Keywords Apollo program, Spring 1967, manned space flight, spacecraft modifications, astronaut crew, safety improvements, unmanned missions, Saturn 5, lunar exploration, Lunar Orbiter 4 ...

A mockup of NASA's Lunar Trailblazer, with the Moon in background. Lockheed Martin Space NASA is not one to let a good spacecraft go to waste. For nearly two weeks, the space agency has been ...