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Apollo 17

Opportunity Mars Rover Blazes Past 40 Year Old Space Driving Record

May 18, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter Now more than 9 years and counting into her planned mere 90 day mission to Mars, NASA’s legendary Opportunity rover has smashed past another space milestone and established a new distance driving record for an American vehicle on another world this [...]

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‘Live’ Tweeting Apollo 17′s Mission

December 21, 2012

  40 years ago on December 19, 1972, Apollo 17 splashed down on Earth, marking the end of the manned moon missions. The astronauts came back with a treasure trove of rocks collected in 22 hours of extra-vehicular activity on the lunar surface, including “orange” soil that ended up coming from an ancient volcano. Twitter [...]

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Apollo 17: 40 Years Ago Today

December 7, 2012

The launch of Apollo 17. Credit: NASA It was the end of an era. At 12:33 a.m. (EST) on Dec. 7, 1972 the monstrous Saturn V rocket blasted off for the final Apollo mission to the Moon. It was a stunning sight, as it was the first nighttime liftoff of the Saturn V. Aboard the [...]

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Seeking the Moon’s Rare Atmosphere

August 20, 2012

Using the dim light of distant stars reflecting off of the surface of the Moon, scientists using a spectrometer aboard NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter have found traces of the Moon’s tenuous atmosphere. But don’t expect to take off your protective spacesuit. The Moon’s atmosphere is made of helium. “The question now becomes, does the helium [...]

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Chasing Gene Cernan’s Childhood — and Apollo Years

August 20, 2012

A wonderful travel moment of serendipity: While sitting near a convention centre in Chicago, I punched in nearby points of interest in my GPS and found something called the Cernan Earth and Space Center. Suspecting it had something to do with Eugene Cernan, one of the last two men to walk on the moon, I [...]

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