Sample taking
Back in the time when the United States and the USSR were involved in a space race, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower started a space program, to remain
Astronaut Walter Schirra's decision to bring a Swedish-made Hasselblad on his Mercury spaceflight set the course for NASA's choice of the camera for the Apollo lunar program.
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The 48th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing was payday for a Chicago-area lawyer who latched onto a moondirt sample bag from the mission.
Want to browse the entire collection of photos captured on the moon by Apollo astronauts with their chest-mounted Hasselblad cameras? You can now do so
Sure, most of the moon's craters were made billions of years ago. But - even now - the moon is still being hit by a surprising number of meteoroids.
An archivist in Virginia just released thousands of high-res images from the Apollo missions. Here are our favorites.
Wired has a great feature on their blog called Beyond Apollo where they “chronicle space history through missions and programs that didn’t happen”. Some great imagery up there. Also, Sp…
The essential guide to astronomy
How do you build the tires for a car that can drive on the Moon? That was the question that NASA asked -- and Goodyear answered -- in the 1960s with the Apollo Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) wire mesh tire. Forty years later, the space agency and rubber company have partnered to answer a similar question: How did they build the moon rover tires?
Fifty years ago this week, Apollo 15 lifted off on the first true lunar exploration mission. Using an improved Lunar Module, the ninth crewed Apollo mission featured the first vehicle to drive on the Moon, allowing astronauts to roam farther than ever before.
On Christmas Eve 1968, Apollo 8’s astronauts captivated the world with a live broadcast from lunar orbit.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos plans to raise sunken Apollo 11 moon rocket engines from the ocean floor. Learn more about the Saturn V rocket's F-1 engines in this SPACE.com infographic.
Fra Mauro, crater on the Moon that appears to be heavily eroded; it was named for a 15th-century Italian monk and mapmaker. About 80 km (50 miles) in diameter, Fra Mauro lies at about 6° S, 17° W, in the Nubium Basin (Mare Nubium) impact structure. The name is also applied to the extensive surrounding region, called the Fra Mauro Formation, which lunar scientists interpret to be material ejected from the impact that formed the giant Imbrium Basin (Mare Imbrium) to the north—the largest impact basin (mare) on the Moon’s near side. A broad, shallow valley within the formation about
The best images from the Apollo missions that you haven't seen.
The objective of NASA’s Apollo Program (1963-1972) was to land humans on the Moon and bring them safely back to Earth. Six of the missions accomplished this goal, completing the 238,900-mile return…
Harrison Schmitt and Gene Cernan, Apollo 17
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter images Tranquility base, site of Apollo 11 landing.
