Forty-five years ago, Apollo 11 carried the first humans to land on the Moon. Why then does it feel like the space industry hasn’t progressed much in almost half a century?
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Jeff Bezos’ Apollo Rocket Engines Land in Kansas for Conservation
The F-1 engine parts recovered by Jeff Bezos have landed at a Kansas museum for conservation.
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Apollo 13 Note Rakes in $84,100 at Space Auction
An annotated flight document from Apollo 13 nabbed the top spot in an auction of artifacts from NASA’s early years.
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Apollo’s F-1 Engines Raised from Seafloor by Amazon Founder
Jeff Bezos’ private expedition found the Saturn 5 engines, thought to have been lost.
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Commentary | Apollo-Soyuz Redux
What are the prospects of a serious strategic engagement between Washington and Beijing?
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Big Asteroid 2011 AG5 Could Threaten Earth in 2040
Scientists are keeping a close eye on a big asteroid that may pose an impact threat to Earth in a few decades.
Posted inOpinion
Guest Blog: Apollo’s Spirit Alive and Well
A few weeks ago I got an email from a NASA manager about the whole Space Launch System vs. commercial space controversy. The market to support these commercial players just isn’t there yet, he told me, adding that their only hope is to let NASA blaze a trail and create new assets in space that will need servicing by private companies. As for the notion that a commercial vehicle might achieve routine spaceflight in the foreseeable future, this manager seemed to rule that out. We have reached the limit of what is possible with existing technology, he said; launching people into space will always be risky, and therefore costly.
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NASA Drafts Plan To Declare Apollo Landing Sites Off-limits
LAS CRUCES, N.M. — NASA has begun drafting guidelines to protect the Apollo 11 and Apollo 17 landing sites, listing them as off-limits and including ground-travel buffers and no-fly zones to avoid spraying rocket exhaust or dust onto aging, but historic, equipment.
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Obama Eroding JFK’s Space Legacy, Apollo Pioneers Say [USA Today]
America’s leadership in space, established 50 years ago with President John F. Kennedy’s bold vision of landing a man on the Moon, is slipping away under the guidance of President Barack Obama, according to lunar pioneers Neil Armstrong, Jim Lovell and Gene Cernan.
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Auction of Lovell’s Apollo 13 Checklist Draws NASA Inquiry [collectSPACE.com]
The record-setting auction of a checklist used during the ill-fated 1970 Apollo 13 mission has run into trouble, reports Robert Z. Pearlman of collectSPACE.com. Greg Rohan, president of Heritage Auctions in Dallas, said NASA has filed a claim stating that astronaut James Lovell did not have title to the artifact, which sold for $388,375 to an unidentified “east coast collector” after a bidding war Nov. 30.
