Apollo 11 landed on the moon on July 20, 1969, making Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin the first men to walk on its surface. Astronaut Michael Collins, the third man on the Apollo 11 mission ...
In Platoff's report, she points out that NASA engineers were challenged by the prospect of Apollo astronauts raising a flag on the moon. "They designed a flagpole with a horizontal bar allowing ...
Just days after sharing a breathtaking shot of Earth, the American astronaut has followed up with an equally stunning shot of a waning crescent moon, or, as Pettit put it: “a glowing fingernail ...
The moon and Earth loom in the background of this image taken from ... will alight on the moon is the spacesuits to be used by the astronauts. Apollo astronauts worked for up to three days on ...
Platoff notes in her report that the legal status of the moon clearly would not be affected by the presence of a U.S. flag on the lunar surface, "but NASA was aware of the international controversy ...
India has launched an ambitious space program aimed at landing an Indian astronaut on the Moon by 2040, Azernews reports. "When we celebrate the 100th anniversary of our independence, the Indian ...