50th Anniversary of the Final Apollo Moon Landing
The NASA Apollo Program accomplished six successful Moon landings in less than four years. Apollo 11 and 12 landed in 1969, Apollo 14 and 15 in 1971, and Apollo 16 and 17 in 1972. There were [...]
Artemis 1 Aims for The Moon!
After nearly a decade of designing, building, and testing, The Artemis 1 Mission is now ready to launch. NASA is currently targeting Monday, August 29, 2022, as the first liftoff date. September [...]
Pioneer 10: First to Jupiter
On March 2, 1972, NASA launched Pioneer 10, its first space probe to the planet Jupiter. No previous space probe had ever ventured out this far. It carried eleven different scientific [...]
Roving the Lunar Highlands:
The 50th Anniversary of Apollo 16
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. [...]
A New Window on the Universe:
The James Webb Space Telescope is Ready to Launch
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 [...]
A New Dragon gets its Wings!
Crew 3 Endurance Prepares to Launch as Crew 2 Endeavour Returns to Earth
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 [...]
October 4, 1957:
The Dawn of the Space Age!
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 [...]
Toys in Space:
Zero-G Indicators and More
The recent SpaceX launches have made a point of sharing the zero-g indicators astronauts use to float around the capsules as they launch into space including a stuffed globe, a stuffed dinosaur, [...]
A Beagle At The Moon:
Apollo 10 Paves The Way For A Lunar Landing!
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 [...]
Splashdown!
Crew 1 Returns and NASA Celebrates 60th Anniversary of The First American in Space
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 [...]
