A Cold War mystery: Why did Jimmy Carter save the space shuttle?
Kraft recalls laying bare the budget jeopardy faced by the shuttle. “We were totally incapable of meeting any sort of flight ...
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50 years ago: Apollo 11 rolls out, NASA…
Fifty years ago today, the massive Saturn V rocket for the Apollo 11 mission that would fulfill President Kennedy’s goal of “landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth ...
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Why the U.S. hasn't returned to the Moon and what's next
In July 1969, the United States achieved a monumental feat in human history when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the ...
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The Story Behind TIME's 1969 Apollo Launch-Party Photos
But David Burnett, a 22-year-old photographer who was based out of TIME's Miami bureau, instead zoomed in on the ordinary Americans who camped out to watch the Apollo 11 astronauts lift off for the ...
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OTD In Space – January 4: NASA Cancels Apollo 20 Moon Mission
NASA cancelled the Apollo 20 moon mission. This came just six months after Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil ...
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Piece of Apollo 11 spacecraft 'lands' in moon meteorite-lined wedding ring
The one-of-a-kind wedding band was crafted by the artisans at the Honest Hands Ring Co. of Colorado. For better or for worse, a small part of the Apollo 11 spacecraft will now be Jon Mesick's to ...