The U.S. is once again challenging itself to go to the moon, and this time, NASA and the Trump administration want to ...
[Mike Stewart] powers up a thrust meter from an Apollo lunar module. This bit of kit passed inspection on September 25, 1969. Fortunately [Mike] was able to dig up some old documentation which ...
Good things come from tearing down walls. Kitchens open up. Germans get to reunite their divided families. And, in the case of the 2026 Chevrolet Corvette, occupants can now adjust their climate ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Dec. 21, 1968, NASA’s Apollo 8 mission launched to the moon. Apollo 8 was the second crewed mission in NASA’s Apollo program.
The Office of the Secretary of War on Monday escalated its preliminary review of Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., to a full command investigation, according to a report. The investigation into Kelly for ...
The Shenzhou 22 mission, originally scheduled to fly next year, launched successfully on Tuesday, Nov. 25, at 04:11 UTC from Site 901 at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in China’s Inner Mongolia ...
As NASA prepared astronauts for its second mission into space, National Geographic had exclusive behind-the-scenes access for the intense and out-of-this-world training these pioneers underwent.
The most common armor is the Whipple Shield, which was developed by astronomer Fred Whipple in the 1940s. Used on the Apollo Command Module and Lunar Module, the Whipple Shield consists of layers of ...
The Orion spacecraft being prepared for the Artemis 2 mission. Exploration programs would get a sharp funding increase in a House spending bill for fiscal year 2026. Credit: NASA/Rad Sinyak The recent ...
On July 17, 1975, a U.S. astronaut and Soviet cosmonaut shook hands in space during the Apollo-Soyuz mission, the culmination of years of diplomatic and technical work during the height of the Cold ...
On July 17, 2000, the German government and German corporations, politically backed by the US, founded a fund to compensate the survivors of forced/slave labor under Hitler's Third Reich. The “Memory, ...
BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – The first international partnership in space wasn’t the International Space Station. It wasn’t even the Shuttle-Mir series of missions. It was the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project.