NASA Updates Broadcast of Next Space Station Resupply Launch, Prelaunch Activities
A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft launches May 4, 2019, on a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on a NASA-contracted mission…
Apollo 11 and Landing Site 2 in the Sea of Tranquility
This photographic illustration compares the size of Apollo 11 Landing Site 2 with that of the metropolitan New York City area. Site 2 was one of three Apollo 11 lunar…
This Week in NASA History: Apollo 11 Launches – July 16, 1969
This week in 1969, Apollo 11 launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center carrying astronauts Neil Armstrong, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin and Michael Collins. The primary mission objective was to fulfill a…
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera Simulates View from Lunar Module
The only visual record of the historic Apollo 11 landing is from a 16mm time-lapse (6 frames per second) movie camera mounted in Buzz Aldrin’s window (right side of Lunar…
A Few Things Artemis Will Teach Us About Living and Working on the Moon
Humans have not had much of an opportunity to work on the Moon. The 12 Apollo astronauts who got to explore its surface clocked in 80 hours in total of…