Apollo

Missions that Weren’t: One-Way Mission to the Moon

[/caption] When President Kennedy promised America a lunar landing in 1961, he effectively set the Moon as the finish line…

12 years ago

Missions that Weren’t: NASA’s Manned Mission to Venus

[/caption] In the mid-1960s, before any Apollo hardware had flown with a crew, NASA was looking ahead and planning its…

12 years ago

The Thirty-Ninth Anniversary of the Last Moonwalk

[/caption] On December 13, 1972, Apollo 17 Commander Eugene A. Cernan and Lunar Module Pilot (LMP) Harrison H. “Jack” Schmitt…

12 years ago

ASF 2011 Autograph Show: To Be the Shoulders of Tomorrow’s Titans

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla – Every year the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation (ASF) hosts its “Astronaut Autograph Show” at Kennedy Space…

12 years ago

How the Moon Became Magnetized

[/caption] It's been a mystery ever since the Apollo astronauts brought back samples of lunar rocks in the early 1970s.…

12 years ago

Carl Sagan: The Gift of Apollo

We all could use a little Carl Sagan in our day, and this latest installment in a new video series…

13 years ago