Moon shot: The amazing story of how America ultimately beat the Soviet Union in the great space race

From the day the Soviets put an astronaut into space in April 1961, the race was on with America to get a man on the moon.

To the moon and beyond: NASA accelerating plans for $30B lunar base

NASA is working to send a small fleet of robotic landers to the surface of the moon in the next few years in an effort to test out new technology and take the first steps toward e ...
Space Coast Daily

NASA Selects Three Companies To Land Four New Missions on the Moon

NASA announced Tuesday the selection of three companies to land four new missions on the Moon in late 2028 as part of the agency’s Moon Base Program. Astrobotic, Firefly Aerospace, and Intuitive ...
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Pioneers of aeronautical engineering: Katherine Johnson – math genius of NASA

Katherine Johnson, the NASA mathematician whose calculations helped send astronauts into orbit and to the Moon, played a ...
Electronic Design

Celebrating International Women in Engineering Day with Notable Engineers and Technologists

This International Women’s Day article highlights pioneering women in engineering, science, computing, and space whose work ...
Silicon Canals

On July 20, 1969, as Apollo 11 descended toward the Sea of Tranquility, Margaret Hamilton's software survived five alarms in four minutes because her team had buil…

The Apollo Guidance Computer overloaded five times during Eagle's descent on July 20, 1969. Margaret Hamilton's team had ...
ZME Science

Jules Verne predicted submarines and Moon missions. He also got some things hilariously wrong

Jules Verne is often called the fathers of science fiction, and it’s not hard to see why. Long before NASA’s Apollo 11 mission landed humans on the Moon, Verne imagined a crewed voyage there in From ...
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Alabama Has The Largest Space Museum In The World And Most People Don’t Know It

So there you have it: the world’s largest space museum is right here in Alabama, waiting to blow your mind with rockets, spacecraft, and the inspiring story of human space exploration.
The New York Times

NASA Announces Its Artemis III Astronauts

Randy Bresnik, Luca Parmitano, Frank Rubio and Andre Douglas will be part of the next mission in the agency’s program to return humans to the surface of the moon by 2028. The recent explosion of a ...
International Business Times

Did Aliens Stop NASA Missions? The Apollo 17 ‘Never Return’ Theory Explained

Apollo 17 astronauts reported a string of unexplained lights and objects around the Moon during their 7–14 December 1972 mission, according to newly released Pentagon UAP files, while a long-time ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The Flight (and Fights) of Apollo 7

When the first Apollo mission to carry astronauts to orbit launched on October 11, 1968, everyone at NASA sighed in relief. Apollo 7 rose on a pillar of flame from Kennedy Space Center’s Pad 34 on ...
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What's hidden in the lunar module?

This video explores the Apollo Lunar Module, the spacecraft that successfully landed astronauts on the moon. The Lunar Module consisted of two stages: the ascent stage and the descent stage. Both ...