"Thanks for all your effort," wrote the first moonwalker. Neil Armstrong was appreciative, but as explained in his ...

The Apollo 5 mission tested the Lunar Module in space for the first time, which was crucial to the future manned missions to the moon. NASA launches ... flew onboard space shuttle Discover on ...

It has been 40 years since NASA launched the first dedicated Department of Defense Space Shuttle mission, after which ...

On this date, Jan. 22, 1968, Apollo 5 launched in a major ... woman and the first neurologist to travel into space. Bondar flew onboard space shuttle Discover on STS-42. What we know: Boeing ...

But since then, two factors are likely to have changed his thinking: Nasa's rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS ... projects such as the space shuttle, the SLS, and developing parts of the Saturn V ...

I was 20 years old and a member of the 7th Cavalry near the DMZ in South Korea when the first Space Shuttle was launched in 1981. The launch took place, not intentionally, on the 20th anniversary ...

NASA's Day of Remembrance honours astronauts who died during Apollo 1, Space Shuttle Challenger, and Space Shuttle Columbia missions. Observed on the ...

Ed Mitchell piloted the Lunar Module on Apollo 14. Credit: NASA After Apollo 13’s near-disaster and ... became the first person to command a space shuttle mission, and remained an active ...

The space agency honored the fallen Challenger crew, as well as other astronauts of Apollo 1 and space shuttle Columbia ... unusually cold temperatures on launch day. The tragedy led to a ...

On January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded after it was launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida in just 73 seconds which claimed the lives of seven astronauts.

Also, on this date in 1992, Dr. Roberta Bondar became the first Canadian woman and the first neurologist to travel into space. Bondar flew onboard space shuttle ... NASA launches Apollo 5, pushing ...