Astronomy on MSN13d
How did walking on the Moon affect the Apollo astronauts?
Where the astronauts sat in the Apollo Lunar Module may have profoundly impacted the way the experience of walking on the ...
Space on MSN15d
Trump administration removes Apollo moon rock from White House Oval Office
Moon rocks have also made brief visits at the White House. During Trump's first term in office, a different Apollo 17 rock was on display for the 2017 signing of Space Policy Directive 1, which ...
St. Petersburg school celebrates legacy as Apollo astronaut returns for reunion
"I weighed 363 pounds with all my equipment, but up on the Moon, just 60 pounds — so you could really spring up!” ...
Space on MSN9d
Auction offers Neil Armstrong's reply to NASA engineer's Apollo 11 mission patch ideas
"Thanks for all your effort," wrote the first moonwalker. Neil Armstrong was appreciative, but as explained in his ...
The Conversation29d
Astronauts on NASA’s Artemis mission to the Moon will need better boots − here’s why
The Apollo program’s journeys ... and our lab conducts research that we hope will one day help astronauts explore the Moon while protecting their body. Of all the equipment astronauts need ...
UPI22d
3 astronauts die in Apollo capsule
CAPE KENNEDY -- America's first three Apollo astronauts ... The bodies of the astronauts remained in the spacecraft for more than seven hours while technicians tried to find out all they could ...
Smithsonian Magazine1d
The Otherwise Unremarkable ‘Rock Boxes’ That Brought Pieces of the Moon Back to Earth
“You need to go to one of these airless bodies ... for scientists around the world. In this photo from the surface of the moon, Apollo 12 astronaut Charles “Pete” Conrad Jr. holds a ...
Orlando Sentinel26d
NASA marks Apollo, Challenger, Columbia tragedies on annual Day of Remembrance
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — It was a cloudy Saturday morning on the Space Coast when 12-year-old Tal Ramon anxiously waited with his family for the return of his father Ilan on Space Shuttle Columbia ...