and learned about the composition of moon soil. Then came the big liftoff. Surveyor 6 launched from the surface, and hopped ...

Astrobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch believes that humans may have unintentionally killed life on Mars in the 1970s.

Pan Am — the airline considered to be among the best of the world during travel’s so-called Golden Age — reportedly at one ...

On November 14, 1969, the Apollo 12 mission launched to the moon. This was the second moon landing of the Apollo program. The ...

The choreographer and visual artist brings performance and paintings to a meteor shower of an exhibition at MoMA PS1.

This is the dramatic story of NASA's Apollo Program, beginning with President Kennedy's ambitious deadline for a lunar landing by the end of the decade, in response to Soviet success with Sputnik and ...

In November 1969, Apollo 12 astronauts Commander Charles "Pete" Conrad, Command Module Pilot (CMP) Richard F. Gordon, and ...

Belmopan knew Alix well. He was a close friend of Ambassador David Gibson, and seemed to share David’s left of center political philosophy. In 1980 Alix got a job at Hummingbird Hershey Ltd., where I ...

However, the US lunar program is delayed, in part because the spacesuits and lunar-landing vehicle are not ready. Meanwhile, ...

After 64 years, the Johannesburg Planetarium has been significantly upgraded. Its new cutting-edge digital projectors will enhance the planetarium’s role in science education, providing tens of ...

There was little Jones did not do in a music career of more than 65 years. He was a trumpeter, bandleader, arranger, composer ...

From narrowly escaping the Manson Family murders to producing The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, his cultural imprint extended far ...