As America prepares to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing, The New York Times is busy celebrating the Soviet space program and bashing America’s. A Times op-ed Thursday ...

With declining public interest in Moon missions, and government funding slashed, NASA focused on scientific research. But the ...

Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee made up the first crew in the Apollo program. The three were scheduled to launch on Feb. 21 of that year for a flight that would orbit Earth.

The 20th century reverberations from the Apollo program in the continue to waft through our 21st century society — in a way that heralds striving for the once thought unattainable. So use of the ...

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has been mapping and photographing the Moon in high-definition since 2009. ... The U.S. spent $25.8 billion on Project Apollo between 1960 and 1973, ...

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has been mapping and photographing the Moon in high-definition since 2009. ... The U.S. spent $25.8 billion on Project Apollo between 1960 and 1973, ...

Apollo program 3 Articles . ALSEP: Apollo’s Modular Lunar Experiments Laboratory. December 23, 2024 by Maya Posch 14 Comments . Down-Sun picture of the RTG with the Central Station in the ...

Walter “Walt” Cunningham, a retired NASA astronaut and pilot of the first crewed flight in the space agency’s famed Apollo program, died early Tuesday morning at the age of 90, NASA said.