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Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion crew capsule, at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral

Science Mar 30

Apollo's old-timers root for NASA's return to the moon with Artemis II launch

By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press

Science Feb 27

FILE PHOTO: The craters on the surface of the crescent moon are seen from the northern hemisphere as it rises in the sky o...
Old Apollo rocks reveal new clues about the moon's ancient magnetic field

Their study challenges the longtime belief that the moon's magnetic field remained strong for long stretches of time.

By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press

Nation Mar 18

Legendary astronaut Lt. General Thomas Stafford attends the 35th anniversary of the Apollo Soyuz at the Omega Flagship Boutique on July 15, 2010 in New York, New York. Photo by Jemal Countess/Getty Images
Astronaut Thomas Stafford, commander of Apollo 10, has died at age 93

Before Apollo 10, Stafford also took part in the first rendezvous of two U.S. spacecraft in 1965. A decade later, he because the first American to shake hands with a Soviet citizen in space when an Apollo spacecraft docked with…

By Seth Borenstein, Associated Press

Science Dec 05

On Nov. 20, the fifth day of the 25.5-day Artemis I mission, a camera mounted on the tip of one of Orion’s solar array wings captured this footage of the spacecraft and the Moon as it continued to grow nearer to our lunar neighbor. The spacecraft entered the lunar sphere of influence at 2:09 p.m. EST, making the Moon, instead of Earth, the main gravitational force acting on the spacecraft. Orion completed its first flyby on the morning of Nov. 21, 2022. Photo provided by NASA
NASA's Orion capsule flies over Apollo landing sites, heads home

NASA's Orion capsule is on its way home from the moon to wrap up a three-week test flight. The capsule and its test dummies came within 80 miles of the far side of the moon Monday.

By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press

Science Aug 26

Artemis 1 mission at Kennedy Space Center
How NASA's Artemis 1 launch will mark a new era in space exploration

The uncrewed test flight will send a novel spacecraft on a weekslong journey around the moon and back to Earth.

By Bella Isaacs-Thomas

Jul 20

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NASA looks to return astronauts to the moon

By Hari Sreenivasan, Sam Weber, Connie Kargbo

Fifty years ago today, astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the surface of the moon. Now, for the first time since the Apollo program ended in 1972, NASA is planning an ambitious launch in 2024 to…

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Jul 10

Apollo landing footage would have been impossible to fake. A film expert explains why.

By Howard Berry, The Conversation

Here are some of the most common myths about the Apollo landing footage – and why they don’t hold up.

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Feb 05

WATCH: 'American astronauts will go back to space on American rockets,' Trump says

By Associated Press

In his State of the Union speech, President Trump observed that 2019 marks 50 years since the Apollo 11 mission, the first space mission to land two people on the moon.

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Aug 25

Missing tape discovery solves 40-year lunar mystery

By Nola Taylor Redd, Scientific American

Traces of the Apollo astronauts’ presence lingered long after they left.

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Jul 07

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Miles O'Brien on the Last Shuttle Launch

Hari talks to Miles O'Brien about the space shuttle program, on the eve of its retirement.

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