U.S. astronaut Peggy Whitson, the Mission commander, who has a doctorate in biochemistry, is taking the necklace that she wore at her wedding, along with photos of the crew and her family.

A Journey with Tom Hanks” takes viewers on an immersive lunar experience, linking NASA’s Apollo Program with the agency’s ...

“We have to remind ourselves that space flight is a risky and serious business ... For Whitson it was the “real-life lunar landing” in 1969 by the U.S. Apollo 11 mission, while Uznański ...

The New Shepard, his reusable passenger rocket, has flown eight crewed space flights since 2021 ... When the USA went to the moon in 1969, it cost the nation $25.8 billion (€24.5 billion).

Expedition 50 Flight Engineer Peggy Whitson is suited up in the U.S. Quest air lock getting ready for her record-breaking eighth spacewalk. The mission to the International Space Station began in ...

"This emblem shows recognition of each step [of the] national space program that has led to the Apollo 11's landing," McClelland wrote to the Apollo 11 crew in April 1969, three months before ...

It will be the first aircraft to attempt controlled flight ... from Space Coast SpaceX early Saturday launched another Starlink mission from the Florida coast. FILE - This May 18, 1969 photo ...

A piece of the Apollo 12 mission’s Saturn V rocket, which carried three astronauts on the second crewed moon landing in 1969 ... to space as a piece of deadweight on the inaugural test flight ...

I think space is in a similar situation,” Josef Aschbacher, director general of the European Space Agency, told The Big ...

The 99th launch from Sriharikota was on December 31, when the PSLV-C60 mission successfully placed two spacecraft in a circular orbit to conduct the Space Docking ... s 17th flight of its ...

which had itself become the first nation to put a man — Yuri Gagarin — in space. Whoever got to the moon first would attain serious bragging rights. And it was in 1969 that the ground-breaking ...