Alan Shepard’s playful experiment captured something equally important about exploration: the unmistakably human urge to improvise, joke, and celebrate achievement, even 3,80,000 kilometers from Earth ...
Apollo 16 astronaut Charles Duke left a framed family photo on the Moon’s surface. Gene Shoemaker was a US geologist who studied terrestrial craters and discovered many comets and planets. When he ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On February 5, 1971, two Apollo 14 astronauts landed on the moon! Apollo 14 commander Alan Shepard and the lunar module pilot ...
On February 5, 1971, two Apollo 14 astronauts landed on the moon! Apollo 14 commander Alan Shepard and the lunar module pilot Edgar Mitchell left their crewmate Stuart Roosa in the command module and ...
The company is shifting its focus to developing lunar lander technology for NASA's Artemis missions. Nearly 100 people have flown on the suborbital New Shepard rocket since its first crewed flight in ...
Blue Origin is pausing its New Shepard space tourism flights for at least two years from Launch Site One in rural West Texas. The company is shifting its focus to developing a lunar lander for NASA's ...
The decision comes as NASA prepares to send four astronauts around the moon in 2026 during a mission known as Artemis 2, which would set the stage for future moon landings. Blue Origin has a $3.6 ...