At the start of a talk at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston in March, Harrison Schmitt, one of the two astronauts who walked on the moon during Apollo 17, the last lunar mission, ...
On Sept. 12, 2013, Voyager 1, launched 36 years earlier, became the first man-made spacecraft ever to leave the solar system.
Since the beginning of the 1960s, mankind took a giant leap by aiming for the Moon and beyond in pursuit of colonisation. The idea of a “Space Race” ...
A home once owned by the first man on the moon is on the market in the Houston suburb of El Lago. Neil Armstrong, who participated in NASA’s Gemini and Apollo missions, lived in this 2,500-square-foot ...
Recently, yet another Apollo astronaut, Jim Lovell, passed on. Lovell’s fame was as defined by his role as a pop culture icon as it was by his astronaut heroics. Everybody who came of age ...
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The world's first view of Earth from the moon, taken 59 years ago — Space photo of the week
On Aug. 23, 1966, NASA's Lunar Orbiter 1 sent back the first photo of Earth from the moon. It showed a grainy crescent Earth ...
Both the United States and China are working to put their astronauts on the moon in the next few years, with NASA's acting ...
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