But Apollo 13 was never supposed to set a record. The crew were just trying to get home, and their only way back to Earth was ...
Nearly 60 years ago, three Americans made history as the first humans to ever break free of Earth's orbit on their way toward the moon. And when they passed behind the moon to the side Earth never ...
The crew just surpassed the record previously set by the Apollo 13 astronauts in 1970 for the farthest distance ever traveled ...
Local South Florida engineer has roots in Space ...
Many things have changed since the 1960s. At 13:24:59 Central Standard Time on December 19 1972, the Apollo 17 command module ...
During a routine ground test in January 1967, astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee were sealed inside their Apollo command module when a sudden fire erupted inside the oxygen-filled ...
More than half a century after Apollo 13’s crippled spacecraft set an unplanned distance record in a desperate loop around ...
Here's what to know about Artemis II, the first time NASA sent humans to the moon and why some people (ahem, Kim Kardashian) ...
For the first time since 1972, NASA is preparing to send humans toward the Moon. The Artemis II mission is intended not to land, but to test the spacecraft, systems and human spaceflight capabilities ...
And now for the dangerous part. Artemis II is officially flying to the moon after firing its thrusters and leaving Earth’s orbit at 7:49 p.m. — beginning an epic four-day journey that will take the ...
Leading the intrepid explorers in the Artemis 2 mission is U.S. Navy Captain and NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, mission commander. Jennifer Levasseur Soon, humans will once again travel beyond Earth ...
Just like the Apollo missions, Artemis II will be run from a mission control monitoring every instrument from here on Earth. How has it changed since the days of the space race? The rocket scientists ...