Apollo

Apollo 11’s Rocket Engines Found on the Bottom of the Ocean

[/caption] Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos has located the Apollo 11 F-1 rocket engines and plans to recover them. “I'm excited…

13 years ago

Look, It’s a Moon Buggy! LRO’s Best Look Ever at the Apollo 15 Landing Site

[/caption] A new image from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter’s Narrow Angle Camera provides the most detailed orbital look ever at…

13 years ago

NASA’s Going Green

[/caption] NASA announced yesterday that it’s looking for new technology proposals using environmentally friendly fuels to launch payload. The space…

13 years ago

The Moon Trees of Apollo 14

On this day in 1971 Apollo 14 astronauts Alan Shepard, Jr., Stuart Roosa and Edgar Mitchell returned to Earth, splashing…

13 years ago

China Unveils High Resolution Global Moon Map

[/caption] Chinese scientists have assembled the highest resolution map ever created of the entire Moon and unveiled a series of…

13 years ago

New Insights into the Moon’s Mysterious Magnetic Field

Ever since the Apollo era, scientist have known that the Moon had some kind of magnetic field in the past,…

13 years ago

Remembering NASA’s Lost Astronauts

[/caption] Today is NASA’s Day of Remembrance, a occasion to recall the seventeen astronauts who have died in pursuit of…

13 years ago

America’s Youth Christen NASA’s Twin New Lunar Craft – Ebb & Flow

[/caption] A classroom of America’s Youth from an elementary school in Bozeman, Montana submitted the stellar winning entry in NASA’s…

13 years ago

Who Owns Space History, the Public or the Astronauts?

[/caption] Former NASA astronaut Jim Lovell came under fire last week when he sold a personal memento from his tenure…

13 years ago