A broken engine switch threatened to leave the first Moon walkers trapped on the lunar surface until an ordinary pen became ...
In July 1969, a quick-thinking Aldrin used the writing instrument to rearm the engine arm circuit of the lunar module "Eagle" ...
An ordinary felt-tip pen that helped save two astronauts from being stranded on the Moon has been sold at auction for ...
It took 43 days and a custom cage to bring the 4.5-tonne test command module from Washington to Castle Hill in Sydney's north ...
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How NASA’s iconic images map real mission capability

Popularly, the most famous images from NASA have mostly been appreciated in terms of artistic merit. Collectively, though, ...
Former NASA boss Jim Bridenstine has warned that the space agency's plan to land astronauts on the Moon risks becoming too ...
With Trump payment secured, E. Jean Carroll echoed Neil Armstrong's words to mission control just before he became first ...
With all this talk and excitement about going ‘back to moon’ in 2027 (or 2028), this is a great time to look back at the ...
Three months ago, during a flashy event at its Washington, DC, headquarters, NASA announced that it was shifting the focus of its lunar plans from an orbital space station to a Moon base on the ...
Apollo 10 astronauts achieved the fastest human speed ever recorded. Their return from lunar orbit propelled them at nearly ...
Fifty-seven years ago today, on July 16, 1969, three astronauts sat atop a Saturn V and lifted off on the most dangerous ...