The Apollo spacecraft used for lunar missions in the late 1960's and early 1970's was really two different spacecraft, the Command Module (CM) and the Lunar Module (LM). The CM was used to get the ...

Inside mission control during the dramatic rescue of Apollo 13. On April 17, 1970, the command module for the Apollo 13 spacecraft splashed down into the Pacific Ocean near the Samoan Islands with ...

What’s with the Allergy to Patriotism? The Rise of the Dearborn Democrats Audio By Carbonatix The Artemis II crew is now six and a half days into their mission to the moon and back. Having rounded the ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. The Amphibious transport dock USS John P. Murtha (LPD 26) will recover the Orion space ...

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On April 4, 1968, NASA launched the final uncrewed test flight of its Saturn V rocket. The Apollo 6 mission demonstrated that the Saturn V rocket and the Apollo spacecraft were ready to send ...

NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket carrying the Orion spacecraft and four astronauts lifted off from Launch Complex 39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday at 6:35 p.m. EDT, beginning ...

The Orion spacecraft that’s taking the four Artemis II astronauts around the moon and back is the largest crewed capsule ever sent beyond low Earth orbit – with habitable space roughly equal to that ...

They’ll be itching for a giant leap when this is done. Life onboard Artemis II’s moon-bound spaceship will be a cramped and possibly smelly affair. And it’s not a huge improvement from the last time ...

For the first time since 1972, NASA is preparing to send humans toward the Moon. The Artemis II mission is intended not to land, but to test the spacecraft, systems and human spaceflight capabilities ...