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SEATTLE — Retired Maj. Gen. William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic “Earthrise” photo showing the planet as a shadowed blue marble from space in 1968, was killed Friday when ...

Last year delivered doses of drama and excitement in the space business, with a record number of launches, breathtaking vistas of other worlds, and a multitude of breakthroughs and setbacks. 2026 is ...

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Apollo 12, featuring astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean, successfully executed a precision lunar landing in Oceanus Procellarum on November 19, 1969, five days post-launch. During their ...

As NASA prepared astronauts for its second mission into space, National Geographic had exclusive behind-the-scenes access for the intense and out-of-this-world training these pioneers underwent.

PHOENIX, Nov. 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Event Modules, powered by MobileOp4, successfully supported AMR Arizona's Event Medical Operations at the NASCAR Championship at Phoenix Raceway, delivering a ...

The most common armor is the Whipple Shield, which was developed by astronomer Fred Whipple in the 1940s. Used on the Apollo Command Module and Lunar Module, the Whipple Shield consists of layers of ...

The Orion spacecraft being prepared for the Artemis 2 mission. Exploration programs would get a sharp funding increase in a House spending bill for fiscal year 2026. Credit: NASA/Rad Sinyak The recent ...

No element of response to fires and other incidents is more important to fire department leadership, incident commanders (ICs) and municipalities than the safety of their firefighters. Evidence of ...

“Houston, we’ve had a problem,” were the words of Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell when an explosion crippled the spacecraft and threatened the lives of the crew ...

WASHINGTON, Aug 8 (Reuters) - American astronaut Jim Lovell, commander of the failed 1970 mission to the moon that nearly ended in disaster but became an inspirational saga of survival and the basis ...