April 16, 1972, Apollo 16 lifted off the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The destination for this fifth lunar landing was a region in the Descartes Highlands area of the Moon. [...]
After years of planning and testing, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is finally nearing its launch date. The telescope is named for James E. Webb, who was the administrator [...]
The Dragon Spacecraft named Endeavour returned to Earth on Monday, November the 8th with a nighttime splash down off the Florida coast at 10:33 p.m. EST. The [...]
It was 64 years ago that the space age truly began with the launch of the first artificial orbital satellite. Sputnik 1 was launched on October 4th, 1957, from [...]
On May 18, 1969, the Apollo 10 mission lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This was the only Apollo mission to launch from Launch Complex 39B. The purpose of the Apollo 10 [...]
On Sunday, May 2, the astronauts of NASA’s Crew-1 mission returned to Earth in a parachute-assisted splashdown at 2:56 a.m. EDT off the coast of Panama City, Florida. Crew-1 launched on [...]
With a crew of four aboard, the SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft named Endeavour is poised to take flight for the second time on Friday morning, April 23 at 5:49 a.m. EDT from the Kennedy Space Center in [...]
It was 60 years ago, on April 12, 1961, that the first human was launched into space aboard the Soviet Vostok 1 spacecraft. Onboard was 27-year-old cosmonaut and citizen of the Soviet Union, Yuri [...]
On Thursday, February 18, the Perseverance rover successfully landed at Jezero Crater on Mars after a six-and-a-half-month journey from Earth. The landing represented the [...]
On January 31, 1971, Apollo 14 lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This was the first Apollo mission to the Moon since the failure of the Apollo 13 mission in April of 1970. [...]
