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1 hour ago · The two astronauts were supposed to launch on May 6. A problem, since repaired, with a valve on the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket that was to carry their Starliner capsule to orbit caused ...
4 days ago · Neil Armstrong, American astronaut and the first person to set foot on the Moon. After joining the space program in 1962, he became the command pilot of Gemini 8, which completed the first manual space docking maneuver. He is best known for accompanying Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr. to the surface of the Moon on July 20, 1969.
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2 days ago · Ed Dwight could have been the only black astronaut in the 1960s – but politics got in the way. In 2024, at the age of 90, he finally got his chance to go into orbit. Humanity has entered a new ...
3 days ago · Website. Official website. Signature. Buzz Aldrin ( / ˈɔːldrɪn /; born Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr.; January 20, 1930) is an American former astronaut, engineer and fighter pilot. He made three spacewalks as pilot of the 1966 Gemini 12 mission, and was the Lunar Module Eagle pilot on the 1969 Apollo 11 mission.
4 days ago · Discover the history of NASA, including our human spaceflight, science, technology, and aeronautics programs, and explore the NASA History Office's publications and oral histories.
3 days ago · The $93-billion plan to put astronauts back on the Moon. “There’s a lot we need to relearn or figure out,” says Juliane Gross, a planetary scientist at NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC) in ...
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5 days ago · Apollo 13, U.S. spaceflight, launched on April 11, 1970, that suffered an oxygen tank explosion en route to the Moon, threatening the lives of three astronauts—commander Jim Lovell, lunar module pilot Fred Haise, and command module pilot Jack Swigert—who ultimately saved themselves.
