NEW YORK — Volcanoes were erupting on the mysterious far side of the moon billions of years ago just like on the side that we ...
Researchers analyzed lunar soil brought back by China's Chang'e-6, the first spacecraft to return with a haul of rocks and ...
All the goals for the program were achieved, and the images sent back were key to helping plan for the Apollo landings. Lunar Orbiter 1 also managed to return the first picture of Earth from the ...
And wonderfully, you can visit. The aptly named Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is a full museum, with exhibits including a decommissioned Saturn V rocket, tons of memorabilia, and an actual ...
As the Apollo program closed in on its goal, cartographers relied on photos from 1966 and 1967 orbiter missions to create the February 1969 hand-­painted map—considered the best reference at ...
Chang'e-3 landing site is indicated with a white square in this lunar map, a mosaic made with the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's Wide Angle Camera. The landing sites of the Apollo missions are in red.
at least three other flags survived life on the moon — American flags planted by Apollo 12, 16, and 17 are all still standing ...
According to recent study, billions of years ago, volcanoes were erupting on the moon's enigmatic far side, just like on the ...
Powerful moonquakes recorded by Apollo seismometers over half a century ... In 2010, an analysis of data obtained by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter suggested that the Moon was shrinking ...
After Apollo, he worked in the field on the Minuteman Weapons System ... he became Director of Rockwell's Orbiter Engineering in 1995 and was appointed Florida Site Director for Boeing Reusable Space ...