The Apollo 13 mission was set to land on the moon in 1970 but was unable to due to an oxygen tank rupturing during the mission. The crew was forced to use backup systems to return safely to Earth.
In November 1969, Apollo 12 astronauts Commander Charles "Pete" Conrad, Command Module Pilot (CMP) Richard F. Gordon, and ...
This is the dramatic story of NASA's Apollo Program, beginning with President Kennedy's ambitious deadline for a lunar landing by the end of the decade, in response to Soviet success with Sputnik and ...
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That is farther than any human has traveled since the Apollo missions. Credit: Space.com | footage: SpaceX | edited by Steve ...
Jenni Gibbons was inspired to become an astronaut at a young age by Canada’s early space explorers, including Roberta Bondar. Now, the Artemis II backup crew member is hoping she can motivate the next ...
SpaceX will attempt to transfer propellant from one orbiting Starship to another as early as next March, a technical ...
Similarly, Apollo 13 crew member Jack Swigert and Apollo 17 astronaut Ron Evans are also known to have flown personal Rolex GMT-Masters. Evans' Rolex, which remained with him in lunar orbit while ...
A parking spot shuffle coming up this weekend more than 250 miles above Earth will mark a unique feat for a pair of NASA astronauts who will become the first to fly in both Boeing’s ...
Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts Butch Wilmore, left, and Suni Williams pose June 13 for a portrait inside ... to walk on the moon as commander of Apollo 16 and commanded the maiden space ...
The SpaceX astronaut Jared Isaacman says frequent space travel is "around the corner." How humans will survive off-world is ...