This op-ed originally appeared in the July 16, 2019 special Apollo 11 at 50 issue of SpaceNews magazine. As the Apollo 11 Landing Module carrying Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin...
...Apollo Saturn 5 rockets and their F-1 engines. “I concluded that the S-1C boosters from Apollo 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, and 16 landed in roughly a 5 by 11...
...Apollo program in the 1960s when adjusted for inflation. Democratic members did mark the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing in several statements which tended to look back at...
...commander took mankind’s first steps on the Moon, preservationists say. A recently authored bill aims to protect the Apollo 11 Tranquility Base site and all the artifacts that Neil Armstrong...
...important about Armstrong and Apollo 11 and Kennedy’s Apollo push was we did it, and finally humans were able to leave the shackles of Earth and go somewhere else. And...
...whom he walked on the Moon nearly 43 years ago on the history-making Apollo 11 mission, and Eugene Cernan, the last man to accomplish that feat. Cernan and the usually...
...the release of a newly restored version of the Apollo 11 broadcast. During the search for the original Apollo tapes, NASA officials discovered a wide range of broadcast recordings, including...
...months before Apollo 11 landed on the moon, Apollo 7 astronauts Walter Schirra, Donn Eisele and Walter Cunningham proved over 11 days that the Apollo command and service module had...
...the top of list happened nearly 50 years ago, when astronaut Neil Armstrong stepped down from the Apollo 11 Lunar Module and placed his heavily booted foot on the surface...
...crewed flight of Orion, now expected for 2022. It also, though, hearkened back to Apollo. During the Apollo program five Little Joe 2 rockets launched Apollo boilerplate spacecraft to test...
...coin sets recognizing the tracking stations that supported the Apollo 11 mission. Proceeds from the U.S. Mint’s sale of the Apollo 11 50th Anniversary coins benefit three space-related organizations that...
...achievements, the moon landing by Apollo 11, and the leadership it took to make that feat possible. The story of the Apollo program, the many heroes in the headlines and...
As part of our monthlong commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, SpaceNews is proud to present this special digital edition. This issue is packed with...
...marking the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 with a “Hack the Moon” exhibition recalling its role in developing the Apollo Guidance Computer. At a media event at its headquarters here...
...the late Apollo missions, much of the U.S. saw the first Moon landing, of Apollo 11 in 1969, as the pinnacle of the program and thereafter public enthusiasm began to...
...why not mention India? … Calcutta can afford it — and Cleveland can’t?” This is an important clue. Apollo cost about $150 billion in 2010 dollars. Imagine the Apollo-style space...
With the success of Neil Armstrong’s seat-of-the-pants first lunar landing on Apollo 11, and the pinpoint accuracy of putting the Apollo 12 lunar module right where NASA planned next to...
Space News Business Astrobiotic Plans Robotic Lunar Mission to Apollo 11 Site By BRIAN BERGER Space News Staff Writer posted: 04 November 2008 05:03 pm ET WASHINGTON �— Astrobotic Technology,...
...to consider making the second one available to the Museum of Flight in Seattle. READ IT AT: [Wired] Bezos Finds Apollo 11 Engines in Atlantic, Plans To Raise Them [Wired]...
...life support and thermal control systems, was influenced by Apollo 11 and the 1970 debut of the Boeing 747 commercial jet. Anderson recalls watching the moon landing and Neil Armstrong’s...