Family Release Regarding the Passing of Apollo, Skylab Astronaut Alan Bean HOUSTON, Texas — Apollo and Skylab astronaut Alan Bean, the fourth human to walk on the moon and an accomplished artist, has died. B...
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NASA Remembers Astronaut Bruce McCandless II
December 23, 2017Astronaut Bruce McCandless II, STS-41B mission specialist, uses his hands to control his movement above the Earth - and just few meters away from the space shuttle Challenger - during the first-ever spacewalk whic...
Three New Crew Members on Voyage to International Space Station
December 17, 2017-- Three crew members representing the United States, Russia and Japan are on their way to the International Space Station after launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 2:21 a.m. EST Sunday (1:21 p...
Paul J. Weitz, the retired astronaut and naval aviator who returned from retirement to command the maiden voyage of the space shuttle Challenger in 1983, died Monday (Oct. 23) at his home in Flagstaff, Az., accord...
Vita: Paolo Nespoli’s next Space Station mission name and logo
November 24, 2016ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli, Expedition 26 flight engineer, works with the Light Microscopy Module in the Destiny laboratory of the International Space Station. Copyright NASA ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli will b...
Honour for software writer on Apollo moon mission
November 23, 2016Margaret Hamilton Photo: Wikimedia Commons Former School of Engineering and Lincoln Laboratory computing pioneer among 21 recipients of the nation’s highest civilian honor. Margaret H. Hamilton, a pioneering...
Impact! New Moon Craters Are Appearing Faster Than Thought
October 13, 2016Temporal ratio image formed from two LROC Narrow Angle Camera images (after image divided by the before image) revealing a new 12 meter (~40 foot) diameter impact crater (Latitude: 36.536°N; Longitude: 12.379°E) f...
Atlantic Storm System Delays NASA Resupply Launch to Space Station
October 12, 2016Orbital ATK's Cygnus spacecraft arrived on Oct. 2, 2016 at the Horizontal Integration Facility at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia for mating with the Antares rocket. Cygnus is scheduled to launch on the...