The moon rock signifying NASA's lunar ambitions had adorned Joe Biden's Oval Office throughout his entire presidential ...

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The Apollo spaceflight program lasted from 1961 to 1972. Apollo 11 was Neil Armstrong's famous first step. Apollo 17 was the last manned mission to the moon. In all, 20 Apollo flights were planned but ...

Boeing told employees in its SLS moon rocket program on Saturday that it plans to make around 400 layoffs as NASA's Artemis ...

Far from ordinary, it took a cutting-edge NASA design to safeguard these treasures during the Apollo missions Elana Scherr Apollo Lunar Sample Container No. 1008, triple-sealed, in which the ...

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British start-up, Apollo Instruments, has meticulously recreated the computer from NASA's 1960 s Apollo spacecraft in ...

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