On Sept. 20, 1970, the Soviet Union's Luna 16 moon probe landed on the moon to retrieve a soil sample. Four days later, it ...

Though NASA expected their complicated machines would ... using the Lunar Module as a lifeboat of sorts. By that time, Apollo 20 had already been cancelled for budgetary reasons.

The Apollo 11 mission in July 1969 completed the goal set by President John F. Kennedy in 1961 to land a man on the Moon and ...

With missions past Apollo 17 canceled, NASA’s attention returned to low Earth ... job of boosting Skylab towards orbit. A little under 20 seconds after S-II ignition, the interstage should ...

Artemis is expensive, but Apollo was exorbitant: the program cost around $290 billion in today’s dollars, according to the Planetary Society, compared with Artemis’s $93 billion. In those years NASA ...

Fifty years on, the Apollo Moon programme is probably still ... at more than 100m (363ft), the Saturn V rocket burned some 20 tonnes of fuel a second at launch. Propellant accounted for 85% ...

New York to watch reports of the Apollo 11 moon landing on one of the three giant television screens set up by the major networks on July 20, 1969 Their jobs were helped by how Nasa, with one eye ...

July 15 (UPI) --NASA is recognizing the 55th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing this month with a variety of events and ...

By fully fueling the Apollo 11 rocket, NASA’s launch team at KSC will verify ... and a need to keep the sun angle between 7 and 20 degrees behind the lunar module, only one launch opportunity ...

In this July 20, 1969 photo made available by NASA, astronaut Buzz Aldrin, lunar module pilot, walks on the surface of the moon during the Apollo 11 extravehicular activity. (Neil Armstrong/NASA via ...