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3 days ago · On July 20, Armstrong and Aldrin landed on the Moon, and four days later the three astronauts returned to Earth, fulfilling John F. Kennedy 's challenge to Americans to land astronauts on the Moon and return them safely to Earth by the end of the 1960s.
2 days ago · Sunday, June 2. 1:50 p.m.—Docking coverage of the Boeing Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station. Hatch opening and welcoming remarks by NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams with the ISS Expedition 71 Crew at approx. 3:35 p.m. Stream on NASA+. 5 p.m.— NASA’s Boeing Starliner Crew Flight Test post-docking news conference.
2 days ago · Wilmore and Williams have been here before. On May 6, the astronauts were strapped into their seats inside Starliner's cockpit awaiting takeoff on a flight to the International Space Station.
1 day ago · Apollo 17 (December 7–19, 1972) was the eleventh and final mission of NASA 's Apollo program, the sixth and most recent time humans have set foot on the Moon or traveled beyond low Earth orbit. Commander Gene Cernan and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt walked on the Moon, while Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans orbited above.
4 days ago · By Sue Nelson. Blue Origin. 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....
2 days ago · 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. He was the second person to walk on the Moon after mission commander Neil Armstrong .
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4 days ago · For Flight 3, Starship made it to the start of reentry over the Indian Ocean and the Super Heavy contact was lost at 426 meters above the ocean’s surface. The goal for Flight 4 is to soft land the booster in the Gulf of Mexico and to survive reentry over the Indian Ocean with Starship.
