When Segregated Labs Calculated The Moon Landing — And Changed STEM

Katherine Johnson and other Black female scientists transformed NASA and STEM, overcoming segregation to calculate missions from Earth orbit to the Moon and beyond.

Artemis 2: The 9 most bizarre objects left on the moon as NASA prepares for key mission

Apollo 16 astronaut Charles Duke left a framed family photo on the Moon’s surface. Gene Shoemaker was a US geologist who studied terrestrial craters and discovered many comets and planets. When he ...
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NASA’s Apollo 14 Mission Splashes Down in Pacific Ocean, Recovered 55 Years Ago

(NASA) – On Feb. 9, 1971, the nine-day Apollo 14 Moon landing mission came to a successful conclusion with the splashdown of astronauts Alan B. Shepard, Stuart A. Roosa, and Edgar D. Mitchell aboard ...
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NASA launched this in 1977 - and it’s still sending data from space

In this episode, we follow Voyager 2 - the strange, shovel-shaped spacecraft launched in 1977 that pulled off humanity’s only ...

On this day in 1971: NASA Astronaut Alan Shephard plays golf in space - How far did the moon shots actually travel?

“Not bad for an old man!” Capcom Bruce McCandless ribbed Alan Shepard, one of America's first 7 astronauts, moments after he ...