By Ben Evans, on July 28th, 2019
Buzz Aldrin stands before the U.S. flag at the Sea of Tranquility. Photo Credit: NASA
On Sunday, 20 July 1969, the Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR) at NASA’s Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC) in Houston, Texas, was filled with tension and expectant quiet. More than three billion people lived on Earth and three others—Apollo 11 […]
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By Ben Evans, on July 21st, 2019
Perspective of humanity’s first naked-eye view of the lunar surface at the Moon’s Sea of Tranquility, 50 years ago, this week. Photo Credit: NASA
Fifty years ago, this weekend, on Sunday, 20 July 1969, the Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR) at NASA’s Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC)—later to become the Johnson Space Center (JSC)—in Houston, […]
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By Ben Evans, on June 10th, 2015 One of the relatively few images of Neil Armstrong at work on the lunar surface, close to Eagle. Photo Credit: NASA
On Sunday, 20 July 1969, the Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR) at NASA’s Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC)—later to become the Johnson Space Center (JSC)—in Houston, Texas, was filled with tension and expectant […]
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By Ben Evans, on July 20th, 2014 One of the relatively few images of Neil Armstrong at work on the lunar surface, close to Eagle. Photo Credit: NASA
On Sunday, 20 July 1969, the Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR) at NASA’s Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC)—later to become the Johnson Space Center (JSC)—in Houston, Texas, was filled with tension and expectant […]
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By Emily Carney, on March 4th, 2014 This painting by artist Robert McCall sums up Neil A. Armstrong’s achievements in aviation and spaceflight history. NASA Dryden Flight Research Center was renamed after Armstrong, who died in 2012, on Saturday, March 1. Image Credit: NASA (painting by Robert McCall)
New year, new name: NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center, located at Edwards […]
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By Emily Carney, on July 23rd, 2013 On Saturday, July 20, Northrop Grumman held a ceremony to honor the workers that made the Moon landings a reality. Photo Credit: Alan Walters / AmericaSpace
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla — The Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex’s Apollo/Saturn V Center played host to Northrop Grumman’s gala celebrating the 44th anniversary of the Apollo […]
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By Jason Rhian, on July 19th, 2013 Northrop Grumman hosted a barbecue luncheon for the men and women who worked on the Apollo Program. This and other events took place a day prior to the 44th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing. Photo Credit: Alan Walters / awaltersphoto.com
TITUSVILLE, Fla — Just one day before the 44th anniversary of […]
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By Ben Evans, on July 16th, 2013 Humanity’s first piloted landing on the Moon was perhaps our species’ greatest triumph of the 20th century … or maybe of any century in history. Photo Credit: NASA
Forty-four years ago this very day, the ground in Florida shook to 7.7 million pounds of thrust as the largest and most powerful rocket ever […]
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By J.L. Pickering, on July 16th, 2013 Photo Credit: NASA / Retro Space Images
First Steps: The crew of Apollo 11 are seen here starting their voyage to the Moon from Pad 39A.
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By Mike Killian, on March 29th, 2012
The launch of Apollo 11. Photo Credit: NASA
The F-1 engines which launched Apollo 11 towards the Moon on the most powerful vehicle ever created have not been seen since the historic mission thundered off the Earth on July 16, 1969. The five engines were jettisoned at nearly 40 miles high once the […]
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