Wiseman is assigned to command NASA's Artemis II mission, which is planned as the first crewed flight to the moon since the end of the Apollo program ... the center of the room until he left ...

Kranz helped shape the space agency’s culture of teamwork, discipline, and innovation from Project Mercury through the Apollo era. Kranz offers readers a seat in mission control during his time ...

He worked actual missions, such as boosting the space station’s altitude, and became certified to work in mission control’s back room, where flight controllers dig deep into technical issues.

Take a road trip through Nevada to this moon-like crater used by NASA astronauts as a training ground to prepare them for the lunar landscape.

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For years, it was an open secret among missileers that the Cold War-era missile alert facilities ... chairs missileers run their mission from inside the launch control center of Echo 1, in rural ...

This is very different from the spirit of the Apollo missions which ... containing propulsion, thermal control, and electrical power generated by solar arrays. The now delayed and scheduled for April ...

The Apollo 11 commander and his crewmates had already arrived at a design to represent the first moon landing. Armstrong's note and the mission patch proposal that inspired it are up for auction ...

Whether President Donald Trump still supports returning astronauts to the lunar surface remains to be seen, but one thing is for certain: the moon no longer has a place in his White House.

and the 2020 Chang’e-5 robotic mission before it, are the first to return lunar rocks to Earth since the 1970s. Together they are building on what scientists learned from Apollo-era missions ...