Amid what some call a new space race, the historic journey around the moon tested a spacecraft that had never before been ...
For the first time in more than 50 years, humans are once again venturing to the Moon. Nasa’s Artemis program had sent four ...
Fifty-six years ago, after a tense race to save the Apollo 13 crew, the astronauts finally splashed down safely. Here’s what ...
In a fitting parallel, Artemis II broke the deep-space distance record set by Apollo 13 in 1970. The Orion capsule reached a maximum distance of 252,756 miles from Earth before looping behind the moon ...
On its way to and from visiting the Moon, the 33 engines of the ESA’s European Service Module are keeping Orion on track, as ...
Monday is day 6 of the Artemis II mission in space, where the crew, according to NASA, is at its farthest point from Earth — ...
But Apollo 13 was never supposed to set a record. The crew were just trying to get home, and their only way back to Earth was ...
What began as a mission to land on the moon became history’s most harrowing space rescue after a technical failure forced the ...
On March 3, 1969, Apollo 9 launched three astronauts on the first crewed test flight of NASA’s lunar module, which astronauts later used to land on the moon. Astronauts James McDivitt, David Scott and ...
Apollo 13 was supposed to be NASA’s third crewed mission to the surface of the moon, but nearly 56 hours into the flight, command module pilot John “Jack” Swigert radioed a troubling message to ...
Meet at Portsmouth Square (745 Kearny St) to grab our supplies and form our crew. Then, cleaning will occur from 4:00pm to 5:00pm around the neighborhood. Stay afterwards to join the Chinatown Lunar ...