Apollo

China’s Chang’e-3 Moon Rover Descends to Lower Orbit Sets Up Historic Soft Landing

All systems appear to be “GO” for the world’s first attempt to soft land a space probe on the Moon…

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China’s Maiden Moon Rover Mission Chang’e 3 Achieves Lunar Orbit

China’s maiden moon landing probe successfully entered lunar orbit on Friday, Dec. 6, following Sunday’s (Dec. 1) spectacular blastoff -…

11 years ago

Apollo Conspiracy Theories Debunked In Coming Video Series

Decades after the last man walked on the moon, Apollo astronauts still get a lot of respect. Some of them…

11 years ago

Moonwalker’s Golf Club Now Hanging Out In New Jersey Museum

During that heady time when NASA was sending people to the moon, Apollo astronaut Al Shepard -- so the story…

11 years ago

Watch All Six Apollo Moon Landings at Once

So often, when we think of all the Apollo missions to the Moon, we recall the videos of the astronauts…

11 years ago

Skeleton Crew gets LADEE in Orbit, Checked Out and Fires Revolutionary Laser During Gov’t Shutdown

NASA’s new LADEE spacecraft successfully entered lunar orbit, is operating beautifully and has begun shooting its radical laser communications experiment…

11 years ago

LADEE Successfully Enters Lunar Orbit on Oct. 6 Amidst Government Shutdown

NASA’s LADEE lunar orbiter will fire its main engine on Oct. 6 to enter lunar orbit in the midst of…

11 years ago

Best Ever Astronaut ‘Selfies’

"Talk about a selfie!" wrote former astronaut Clay Anderson on Twitter yesterday (Oct. 1). He posted that comment along with…

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