The Apollo era was defined by ambition, success, and unexpected challenges. While NASA’s focus shifted after Apollo 11, the near-catastrophic Apollo 13 mission became one of history’s greatest ...

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Dennis Wilson, an Army veteran and NASA communications specialist who played a role in the historic Apollo 11 moon landing, was laid to rest on Jan. 8 at Riverside National Cemetery. Wilson, who ...

Its official name is the Apollo Lunar Sample Return Container No. 1008, but everyone, including Teasel Muir-Harmony, curator ...

An annual safety report to NASA has both praise and also underscores a number of cautionary woes, including the space ...

Neil Armstrong was appreciative, but it was too late. The Apollo 11 crew had a design for the first moon landing. Armstrong's ...

I was 6 years old when Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong walked on the moon in 1969. The static-crackled words he spoke from the moon of his single step for man being a leap for mankind shaped my ...

There are no two ways about it—space will kill you if you give it half a chance. More than land, sea, or air, the space ...

For Whitson it was the “real-life lunar landing” in 1969 by the U.S. Apollo 11 mission, while Uznański-Wiśniewski felt drawn ...