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Apollo 15 lunar module pilot James B. Irwin, command module pilot Alfred M. Worden, and commander David R. Scott (left to right) during ocean recovery training for their lunar mission.

What Apollo 15 Got Right

A post-splashdown scandal did not undermine the mission’s scientific achievements.
May 13, 2011 | By Diane Tedeschi

A&S Interview: Story Musgrave

The veteran astronaut is the only person to fly on all five space shuttle orbiters.
August 2010 | By Diane Tedeschi

Live From the Moon!

The picture may have been grainy, but it was some of the most riveting TV of the 1960s.
July 19, 2010 | By Mary McKillop

Kraft in Mission Control in July 1965.

A&S Interview: Chris Kraft

NASA's first Flight Director assesses the state of the space program 40 years after Apollo.
March 2010 | By Michael Klesius

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

1. Langley Landers (1961)

In August of  1961, engineer John Houbolt gave one of many presentations to the Space Task Group [at NASA

Lunar Landers That Never Were

The road to the moon was paved with good intentions.
January 01, 2008 | By Tony Reichhardt

PLSS backpacks

How did the Apollo astronauts toss their spacesuits overboard?

Hint: They kept the most important part.
January 01, 2007 | By Joe Pappalardo

Norman Rockwell's Ghost

The most artistic collaboration of the entire Apollo program.
September 2006 | By Pierre Mion

Living and working in the most remote office in the solar system, the next moon-bound astronauts will rely on a 21st century lunar lander with conveniences only dreamt of by veterans of Apollo.

Son of Apollo

The next lunar lander will be a giant leap ahead of the first.
May 2006 | By Tony Reichhardt

NASA Bug

"We Called It 'The Bug'"

The Apollo Lunar Module wasn't pretty. But it got the job done.
September 2001 | By D.C. Agle


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