Late last year, a team of engineers from the Northrop Grumman Corp. spent a week scouring thousands of archival documents at the Cradle of Aviation Museum on Museum Row in Uniondale. Museum curator ...
Discover the Apollo Lunar Module (LM), the spacecraft that transported astronauts to the moon's surface. This video provides an inside look at the module's two main parts: the ascent stage, which ...
On Feb. 6, 1971, Rear Admiral Alan B. Shepard Jr. closed out his moonwalk with one of the most famous golf shots of all time. Shepard, an avid golfer, hit two balls using his makeshift Wilson Staff ...
James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...
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That's one small step for a man. One very expensive leap for the United States. Okay, sure, some would argue focusing on the total cost of the Apollo program defeats the purpose. Stepping onto the ...
The Block II Apollo Guidance Computer, or AGC, operated on all crewed Apollo flights from Apollo 7 in 1968 through Apollo 17 in 1972. The Apollo Guidance Computer’s (AGC) main casing (left) and the ...
Editor’s note: The following story ran in our June 2015 issue. In today’s celebrity-obsessed culture, the word hero gets bandied about far too often. But what other term would you use to describe ...
James “Jim” Lovell, the former NASA astronaut renowned for his heroic leadership during the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission, has passed away at the age of 97. Lovell was the oldest living former astronaut ...
He led the three-man crew that survived a near catastrophic explosion in space in 1970, and was later immortalized by Tom Hanks in the movie “Apollo 13.” James A. Lovell Jr., right, and Fred W. Haise ...
The Army will review the use of selection boards to assess senior soldiers for command positions, officials said. In a memo Thursday, Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll rescinded the official status ...
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