In 1971, Apollo 15 secretly left a tiny aluminum astronaut on the moon; beside it was a plaque naming 14 dead American and Soviet space travelers

In 1971, Apollo 15 commander David Scott secretly honored fallen astronauts and cosmonauts with an aluminum figurine and ...

In 1971, Apollo 15 astronauts found a white rock later identified as part of the Moon's ancient crust; the "Genesis rock" was estimated to be around four billion years old

In August 1971, Apollo 15 astronauts discovered the Genesis Rock, an ancient lunar sample estimated to be four billion years ...

Apollo 11 set up the Moon's first seismometer in 1969; its recorded moonquakes gave scientists the first detailed map of the lunar interior

When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped onto the Sea of Tranquility in July 1969, they deployed several scientific ...

Moon phase today: What the Moon will look like on August 21

The Moon is more than half illuminated now.
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Moon rocks round out 1 billion years of Maryland’s geologic history

They came to Maryland courtesy of President Richard Nixon, who ordered moon rock samples from the Apollo 11 and Apollo 17 ...
MIT Technology Review

The role of the astronaut is in flux

Human spaceflight has been racking up new milestones. But we’re still grappling with a fundamental question: Why go in the first place?
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Eat, Drink, Savor: Hollister resident victorious at State Fair

This new display will showcase her awards from the 2026 California State Fair: 15 First Place ribbons—one for each of ...
Marin Independent Journal

Marin resident unearths historic photograph of NASA astronauts

Terra Linda photographer Norm Levin rediscovered a piece of American aerospace history in a box in his garage earlier this ...

When the men who walked on the moon walked through Chicago

In August of 1969, Chicago welcomed Neil Armstrong, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin Jr. and Michael Collins to the city only a few weeks after their stop on the moon. Confetti cascaded down from skyscrapers in a ...

Radiation vest tested on NASA moonshot can cut astronauts' exposure in solar storms, study suggests

A new study suggests a protective vest tested on a manikin during NASA's first Artemis moonshot could slash the radiation ...
Smithsonian Magazine

‘Like a Hole in the Universe’: Artemis 2 Astronaut Victor Glover Reflects on Seeing a Total Solar Eclipse While Flying by the Moon

The four astronauts who rounded Earth’s natural satellite in April got an extremely rare view of the dark lunar disk blocking ...
Space Coast Daily

THIS DAY IN HISTORY: NASA Awarded The First Apollo Development Contract In 1961

On August 10, 1961, NASA awarded the first Apollo development contract to the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory to design the ...