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Exactly fifty years after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin set foot on the moon, a new team of astronauts arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) to begin their stay there. The launch took place on Saturday, July 20, 2019 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in ...

Footage of the first moon landing taken in 1969 during NASA's Apollo 11 mission was purchased at auction through Sotheby's for $1.82 million on Saturday. The collection of footage totals about 2 hours and 24 minutes across three reels of film recorded at ...

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, Google is shining light to one of the women whose work made the historic moon landing a success: Margaret Hamilton. A Glowing Tribute. On Thursday, July 18, the tech company unveiled a massive portrait of ...

Cameron County has authorized another round of beach and road closures for SpaceX operations at the company's Boca Chica launch site. The primary closure dates and times for Boca Chica Beach and S.H. 4 from the beach to FM 1419 are July 22 from 8 ...

China's small space station, Tiangong-2, has burned up in the Earth's atmosphere as part of a planned deorbital maneuver. It was launched in 2016 as a test bed for space technologies and was originally only scheduled to be in space for two or three years.

50 years ago, on July 21, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon. When they returned, along with fellow Apollo 11 crewmember Michael Collins, humanity was more obsessed with space than ever. But the Space Age had already begun 12 ...

This is an Inside Science story. (Inside Science) -- A half century ago this July, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped outside the Eagle lander and set foot on the moon, the first time humans ever walked upon the dusty, pockmarked surface of our lunar ...

Harvard University, one of the best-recognized names in higher education, has announced that there might be a way to make Mars habitable, despite the harsh conditions on the planet. While NASA recently concluded that there is hardly any way to make ...

On May 25, 1961, U.S. President John F. Kennedy said Americans would land a man on the moon and return him safely to Earth by the end of the decade. Fifty years ago this week, NASA fulfilled Kennedy's pledge. But while the space agency marched toward ...

Hot and humid again today, but a cold front will move through tonight and tomorrow. This will bring the chance for some rain and some much cooler temps. Advertisement. Recommended. Whatever happened to the flag placed on the Moon in 1969?

(NEW YORK) -- Three men went to the moon, but only two walked on the lunar surface. Astronaut Michael Collins, the man who manned the command module during the moonwalk, reflected on the historic Apollo 11 mission as it celebrates its 50th ...

Well, the moment all Omega fans has been waiting for has arrived: the Swiss watchmaking juggernaut has launched a special edition Speedmaster using the newly revived 321 movement. The 321 was in use in pre-Moon Speedmasters before being ...

There are plenty of conspiracy theories, recent discoveries, and just plain old misconceptions about the moon. image. By Matt Blitz. Jul 21, 2019. Halfmoon. CruelTeacherGetty Images. At 3:17 p.m. ET on July 20, 1969, the Apollo 11 lander touched down on ...

In the house in which I grew up, a single framed newspaper front page loomed over us. “MAN ON MOON“, it declared jubilantly, in an enormous, suitably momentous typeface. Subheadings included “'It's very pretty up here … a fine, soft surface'” and, ...

When astronaut Rusty Schweickart found himself floating in space with nothing to do while colleagues fixed a broken video camera during a space walk in 1969, the experience changed his life. Left to contemplate the spinning Earth below, Schweickart ...

Geologists at Washington University will be among the first researchers to study lunar samples from the final crewed mission to the moon. The Apollo 17 mission in 1972 brought back moon rocks that have been kept in a vacuum-sealed tube for nearly five ...

Events held to mark 50 years after lunar landing. Saturday marks 50 years since the iconic Apollo 11 moon landing. Landing on the Moon is the first piece of content to feature on the app, produced in partnership with the Smithsonian's National Air and Space ...

A CHINESE space laboratory hurtled back to Earth in a fireball on Friday, as part of a planned de-orbit over the Pacific. By Tom Fish Tom Fish. 12:23, Sun, Jul 21, 2019 | UPDATED: 13:00, Sun, Jul 21, 2019. Share. Video Player is loading. Play Video. Play.

Three golf balls. A family photo. Large pieces of scientific equipment. A tiny statue. Bags and bags of human waste of one flavor or another. And of course, American flags. It's all among the stuff that the dozen astronauts who walked on the moon between 1969 ...

In retrospect, Apollo 11 was even more exceptional than we thought. NASA put two astronauts on the moon on July 20, 1969, just eight years after President John F. Kennedy announced the audacious goal and a mere 12 years after the dawn of the Space ...