Splashdown occurred in the Pacific Ocean at 1:07 p.m. April 17, after a flight that lasted five days, 22 hours and 54 minutes. [...] ...
On April 16, 1972, Apollo 16 launched to the moon! Apollo 16 was NASA's fifth lunar landing and the penultimate mission of the entire Apollo program. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com] ...
U.S. and allied governments and contractors gamed out implications of a nuclear blast intended to take out satellites.
When Reid Wiseman ‘97 strapped into the Orion spacecraft in April for humanity's first lunar voyage in more than half a ...
The repository, posted by NASA's Chris Garry and designated as public domain, contains two distinct programs: Comanche055, ...
The Orion spacecraft, carrying NASA’s Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch and the Canadian Space Agency’s Jeremy ...
The astronauts of Artemis-2 are getting used to normal gravity after spending nine days in weightlessness. The yet-to-be name ...
Fifty-six years ago, after a tense race to save the Apollo 13 crew, the astronauts finally splashed down safely. Here’s what ...
For the first time in more than 50 years, humans are once again venturing to the Moon. Nasa’s Artemis program had sent four ...
The Apollo missions to the moon established many of the guidelines that we still use for space travel today, with some modern ...
A historic Bay Area aircraft carrier that once helped bring astronauts home from the moon is now serving as a real-life ...
NASA’s Artemis II astronauts return after a historic lunar flyby, setting a distance record and sharing life aboard the Orion ...