NASA, Artemis and Apollo 1
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A NASA video (above) reveals in great detail how its upcoming Artemis II mission is expected to play out. The space agency released the animation last year, but seeing that the Artemis II astronauts could be heading to the moon as early as February 6,
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Anniversary of Apollo 1 disaster: Jan. 27 a dark day in NASA history
Jan. 27 is a dark day in the world of space exploration. It’s the anniversary of the Apollo 1 fire that killed three NASA astronauts, including Grand Rapids native Roger B. Chaffee.
The astronaut's stand means you can have it 'floating' in mid-air, and the red and blue stripes, with a little gray to boot, add extra life to their costume. In our review of the Lego Creator 3-in-1 Astronaut, we called it "An iconic Lego space set that we're absolutely proud to have on our shelves," and you won't regret snapping this up either.
NASA's space shuttle Challenger exploded and broke apart Jan. 28, 1986, in the sky over East-Central Florida, killing the seven astronauts on board.
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Why did NASA kill Apollo, then chase a wild mission to Mars?
The United States walked away from the Moon just as it seemed to master it, then spent decades sketching ever more ambitious paths to Mars that never quite left the drawing board. The shift was not a clean break from one destination to another so much as a tangle of politics,
NASA has demolished the Propulsion and Structural Test Facility and Dynamic Test Stand in Huntsville to modernize the Marshall Space Flight Center and preserve their history digitally.
Jim Lovell, an astronaut best known as the commander of the ill-fated Apollo 13, has died. He was 97. NASA announced his death Friday and included this statement from his family: “We are enormously proud of his amazing life and career accomplishments ...
A new NASA study using Apollo lunar soil samples challenges a long-held theory. It suggests meteorites were not the primary source of Earth's water. The Moon's surface offers a unique record of ancient impacts.
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OTD in space - January 27: Apollo 1 fire
On January 27, 1967, three Apollo astronauts were killed during a routine preflight rehearsal at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The Apollo 1 fire was the first major deadly disaster in the history of the U.