As the astronauts flying on NASA's final space shuttle mission prepare for their return to Earth tomorrow (July 21), they took a moment to pay tribute to another historic space milestone: the 42nd ...

Apollo 11 was a huge achievement, but unmanned spacecraft did a lot of the heavy lifting ... The space shuttle has come and gone without bringing us any closer to Mars.

I knew I was alone,” he observed later, “in a way that no earthling has ever been before.” That quote is immortalized on a ...

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On July 24, 1969, the Apollo 11 capsule splashed down, and the astronauts were brought to the USS Hornet. "This year, on Saturday, July 19, visitors can enjoy a wide variety of displays, speakers, and ...

Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins returned Tuesday to the exact spot where he flew to the moon 50 years ago with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. ... a former space shuttle commander.

The success of Apollo 11 inspired astronauts like Andrew Allen, ... Allen would go on to fly three Space Shuttle missions for NASA in the 1990s before he retired in 1997.

Fifty years after humans first stepped on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission, NASA has created a goal of landing the first woman and next man on the moon’s South Pole by 2024. NASA has dubbed ...

GREENE: The Apollo 11 mission that saw Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walk on the moon. MARTIN: Later came the Space Shuttle Era, when astronauts flew in over 100 missions and helped build the ...

Space Exploration National Air and Space Museum to reveal more renovated galleries on July 28. ... from Apollo to Shuttle to SpaceX . ... The Apollo 11 Mission at The Museum of Flight in Seattle.

[Remembering Apollo 11 in a New York Times special section.] The presidents who followed Kennedy accomplished remarkable things in space, including the development of the reusable space shuttle ...

As the astronauts flying on NASA's final space shuttle mission prepare for their return to Earth tomorrow (July 21), they took a moment to pay tribute to another historic space milestone: the 42nd ...