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Grumman workers pose with one of their lunar modules (LM-12) at the company

Apollo’s Army

It took 400,000 people, working under extreme pressure, to reach the moon in 1969. Like any army, they suffered casualties.
June 18, 2009 | By The Editors

"Amiable Strangers"

Three distinct personalities, one goal: reach the moon.
May 21, 2009 | By Michael Klesius

Voices from the Moon

What it was like, in the astronauts’ own words. Excerpts from a new book by Andrew Chaikin.
May 20, 2009 | By Andrew Chaikin with Victoria Kohl

Testing an Orion mockup in the Atlantic, April 2009.

Trial by Water

NASA tests the seaworthiness of its new moonship.
April 27, 2009 | By Rebecca Maksel

The Mercury Seven: (from left) Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard and Deke Slayton.

The Seven

In 1959, a group of military pilots became Astronaut Heroes overnight, and created an American icon that survives to this day.
April 07, 2009 | By Matthew Hersch

With $79 million on the line, NASA hopes a crash landing detected by a companion spacecraft will yield valuable data about lunar ice.

Lunar Smackdown

A spacecraft bites the lunar dust.
March 2009 | By Mohi Kumar

NASA’s Ethiraj Venkatapathy (left) and Betsy Pugel, and 
the Museum’s Hanna Szczepanowska, look over Apollo heat shields.

In the Museum: Hot Commodity

February 2009 | By Michael Klesius

Before crashing into the moon, the Ranger spacecraft sent back images of the lunar surface 1000 times better than what could be obtained from telescopes on Earth.

A Smashing Success

How the Ranger probes’ moon crashes helped pave the way for Apollo.
January 21, 2009 | By Paul Hoversten

The first humans to travel to another world get a sendoff from the closeout crew before boarding their spacecraft, December 21, 1968. Bill Anders is at right.

To Boldly Go

Sending Apollo 8 to the moon was a risky mix of cold war politics, bravery, and the faith of one man, George Low, in his engineers.
December 19, 2008 | By Michael Klesius

#1: The whole Earth from space, as photographed by the Apollo 17 crew in 1972. Arguably the most influential image to come out of the American space program.

Top NASA Photos of All Time

50 indelible images from the first 50 years of spaceflight
November 2008 | By The Space History Division, National Air and Space Museum

The recovery crew arrived five hours after the Soyuz landed.

If I Were to Land on Mars...

A small malfunction lands three astronauts on Russia’s version of the Red Planet.
November 2008 | By Don Pettit

Fifty years ago, an aircraft hangar at Ohio

Moments & Milestones: The First “A” in NASA

November 2008 | By GEORGE C. LARSON, MEMBER, NAA

One of these shuttle astronauts could get the call for a moon mission. Top to bottom, left to right: Terry Virts, mission specialists Robert Behnken, Karen Nyberg, pilots Jim “Vegas” Kelly, Mark Kelly, Pam Melroy, Randy Bresnik, and mission specialist Megan McArthur.

Fly Us to the Moon

The next lunar explorers will soon report to Houston. Are some already there?
November 2008 | By Michael Cassutt

A&S Interview: Farouk El-Baz

A veteran space scientist discusses the challenges of the 21st Century.
November 2008 | By Elizabeth Howell

Mission to Mir

At the start of a new partnership, U.S. and Russian space travelers learn that every long journey begins with a single step.
October 2008 | By Tom Harpole

Artist

End Run

A small band of rogue rocketeers takes on the NASA establishment.
September 29, 2008 | By Michael Klesius

The rescued crew would transfer from one shuttle to the other along the robot arm.

The Shuttle Mission No One Wants

If STS-400 launches, be prepared for one of the most dramatic spaceflights ever.
September 02, 2008 | By Paul Hoversten

The shadow of their lander dominates a mosaic of the numbered photos Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took out their window before leaving the moon.

Finding Apollo

Forty years later, we’re about to see what the moonwalkers left behind.
September 2008 | By Tony Reichhardt

colossal cargo airplanes

Big Idea

Megalifters prove you’re never too fat to fly.
September 2008 | By Kara Platoni

Australian Gary Redman won first place in the international college category for his 24-seat OIONOS commuter airplane.

Inexperience Wanted

Student engineers answer NASA’s call to design the airplane of 2058.
August 06, 2008 | By Michael Klesius


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