Once in lunar orbit, they transferred to a smaller spacecraft (the Lunar Module) to land on the moon’s surface. For the Apollo missions, it took about 3 days, give or take, to reach the orbit of ...
The Blue Ghost lunar lander, managed by Texas company Firefly Aerospace, touched down Sunday morning on the moon's near side.
The documentary tells the story of Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee, who died after a fire erupted in their spacecraft on the launch pad.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A private lunar lander carrying a drill, vacuum and other experiments for NASA touched down on the moon Sunday, the latest in a string of companies looking to kickstart ...
Intuitive Machines' vehicle will hitch a ride aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which will propel it into orbit ... to the moon for the first time in more than five decades since NASA's Apollo ...
The lander continued to stun once in orbit around the moon ... to get more science to space and to the moon," Fox said. Unlike NASA’s successful Apollo moon landings that had billions of ...
The spacesuit worn by the first Briton in space, the Soyuz that brought the first UK astronaut back to Earth and the only ...
The Moon Tree, located near the John Scoble Memorial Pavilion in the park, will be protected by fencing and permanent signage ...
The current Moon Tree plantings pay homage to a similar program conducted as part of the Apollo 14 mission in 1971.
Getting from Earth to space isn’t just about speed—it’s about planning the right trajectory. The Moon, our closest neighbor, ...
Sonoma’s Rusty Schweickart appears in “Apollo 1,” a new documentary film about the mission, and will participate in a panel ...