60 years ago: Ranger 8 moon photos aid in Apollo site selection
Before Apollo astronauts set foot upon the moon, much remained unknown about the lunar surface. While most scientists ...
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Moon’s Far Side And Earth Together In Amazing Satellite Images
Astronauts Who Have Been in Space for 8 Months Push Back on Trump’s Claim They Were 'Abandoned' High-Paying Jobs (That No One ...
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Moon or Mars? Why not both, acting NASA head Janet Petro says
NASA still views the moon as a stepping stone to Mars, even though Elon Musk has dismissed Earth's nearest neighbor as "a distraction." WASHINGTON, DC — NASA still has the moon in its crosshairs.
Firefly’s Blue Ghost Snaps a Breathtaking Earth Selfie on Its Way to the Moon
Blue Ghost has left Earth’s orbit, carrying NASA’s science to the Moon. Instruments are performing well, including a ...
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Risks with current Artemis 3 moon landing plan 'may be too high,' NASA safety group says
An annual safety report to NASA has both praise ... for both the agency's Moon to Mars Program and the current International Space Station operations in low-Earth orbit. The ASAP of experts ...
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Amazing Views From Artemis 1 Of Moon And Earth From Space
See the epic view of the moon and Earth captured by the Orion spacecraft ahead of its outbound powered flyby. Credit: NASA / ...
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The Otherwise Unremarkable ‘Rock Boxes’ That Brought Pieces of the Moon Back to Earth
Far from ordinary, it took a cutting-edge NASA design to safeguard these ... 12 astronauts transported invaluable samples of moon back to Earth. Cade Martin It’s only the size of a suitcase ...
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What is the snow moon? Here's when and how to see February's full moon rise in US
according to NASA. On those nights, the sun, Earth and moon will align so that the moon passes into the Earth's shadow, causing the lunar surface to appear as a deep shade of rusty-red during the ...
Blue Ghost Lowers Orbit and Snaps Rare Views of the Moon’s Far Side
The latest private lunar lander is a little closer to its destination. Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost fired its engines early ...
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We’re going back to the moon: Everything to know about NASA’s latest lunar lander mission
One week ago, a private lunar lander left the ground on a nearly 7-week journey to reach the surface of the moon ... 10 NASA instruments for a complete lunar day, equivalent to about 14 Earth ...
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Earth’s recent ‘mini-moon’ may be an actual piece of the moon, astronomers say
A small space rock that lingered near Earth ... NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS. Despite predictions that the asteroid might become a temporary mini-moon ...