Apollo Moon Mission (1961-1975)

Amazon's Jeff Bezos hails recovery of some Apollo F-1 engines

2013-03-20 11:34:00

Jeff Bezos: founder and CEO of Amazon.com, and now, bona fide ocean explorer. A year after vowing to send a team into the ocean to find F-1 engines from the historic Apollo 11 moon launch, Bezos announced Wednesday that the team had recovered F-1 engine...

Lowell Observatory: Can crowdsourcing fix iconic telescope?

2013-03-20 05:45:00

Is it possible to crowdsource an old telescope? The Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz., is about to find out. Built by the astronomer Percival Lowell in 1894, the 24-inch Alvan Clark Telescope has been in continuous use for 117 years. About the turn...

PASSINGS: Dyer Brainerd Holmes, T.S. Cook, Joel Schaeffer

2013-01-15 00:00:00

Dyer Brainerd Holmes NASA manned space flight director Dyer Brainerd Holmes, 91, director of manned space flight for NASA when Americans were making their early forays into space in the early 1960s, died Friday at a hospital in Memphis, Tenn., of...

Wheels on the moon

2012-12-19 10:02:25

NASA will remain a leader in human spaceflight, top official says

2012-12-19 13:36:00

NASA’s human spaceflight program is “alive and well,” NASA chief Charles Bolden told a committee convened to explore the space program’s future goals and direction. “Those who question whether we can still lead in space...

Cleanliness is key for robotic space explorers

2012-12-22 17:12:00

WATERTON CANYON, Colo. — The concrete-floored room looks, at first glance, like little more than a garage. There is a red tool chest, its drawers labeled: "Hacksaws." "Allen wrenches." There are stepladders and vise grips. There is also, at one...

Gingrich: Fly me to the moon

2012-01-26 16:36:58

Twitter Town Hall: The complete transcript of Barack Obama and Jack Dorsey

2011-07-06 16:36:20

Adios, space shuttle -- the cosmos slips a little further away from us

2011-07-23 16:36:30

Willard S. Boyle dies at 86; a father of the digital camera

2011-05-19 00:00:00

Willard S. Boyle, who shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in physics for the invention of the revolutionary imaging device that is at the heart of digital cameras of all descriptions, died May 7 at a hospital in his home town of Wallace, Canada. He was 86 and had...

NASA history for sale at the Astronaut Store

2010-11-27 16:34:48

Joseph Gavin dies at 90; former head of aerospace company Grumman

2010-11-03 00:00:00

Joseph Gavin, a retired president of the New York aerospace company Grumman who headed its Apollo lunar module program in the 1960s, died Oct. 31 at his home in Amherst, Mass. He was 90. Gavin's death was announced in a statement issued by Los Angeles-...

During Dyer Brainerd Holmes' time at NASA, John Glenn became the first U.S. astronaut in orbit. Holmes also helped lay the groundwork for the Apollo program and America’s ambitious venture to the moon.

2013-01-14 21:00:32

The Firing Room Theater at Kennedy Space Center is a replica of a NASA 1960s firing room, with the actual launch consoles used in the Apollo program and monitors that displays news clips from NASA's early years and is part of the tour at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

2012-07-30 00:00:00

A woman poses with a replica of a moon outside the Newseum in Washington, DC . As the world marked the 40th anniversary of the first lunar landing on July 20th, astronauts urged Americans to take inspiration from the Apollo program and go back to the moon and beyond, to Mars.

2009-07-20 00:00:00