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Moon mission could launch as soon as Feb. 6
NASA is getting ready to send astronauts around the moon for the first time in more than half a century—and then pull off the riskiest part: bringing them home. The Artemis II mission, targeted for launch as soon as February,
CHICAGO — James Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering, has died. He was 97. Lovell died Thursday in Lake Forest, Ill., NASA said in a statement Friday. “Jim’s ...
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OTD In Space - January 4: NASA Cancels Apollo 20 Moon Mission
On 1970, NASA cancelled the Apollo 20 moon mission. This came just six months after Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong became the first people to ever set foot on the moon. Instead of launching another crew of astronauts to the moon,
A new study reveals that tiny fragments of Earth's atmosphere are transported to and absorbed by the moon via gusts of solar wind and our planet's magnetic field, upending a 20-year-old theory based on NASA's Apollo lunar samples.