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The Saturn V did not cruise to the Moon at a single speed, it accelerated through distinct phases, briefly peaking at a blistering velocity during the burn that hurled Apollo spacecraft out of Earth ...

Bill Piccinni, 67, was riding his bike by the Franklin Institute when something halted his pedaling. The lunar module looked as if King Kong had ripped it in half, he said. Concerned, he asked Curious ...

The day Apollo 11 landed on the moon 40 years ago, it inspired Eddie Lee McGhee to name his newborn daughter after the lunar lander. But he didn't name her Eagle. He named her Module. Module McGhee ...

Skimming just 60 miles above the surface, astronauts Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders stared into the Moon’s ...

I always get nostalgic when I come to Houston, the “Space City,” as I did for Saturday’s Texas Bowl between LSU and the ...

Vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper [NASA image AS12-49-7278]. 8 x 10 in. (20.32 x 25.4 cm.) With NASA credit ...

Conceived not long after the first Chevy small blocks hit American streets, the RL10 was the type of rocket engine you could ...

From a surge in startups to crewed mission preparations, 2025 marks a transformative year as India eyes $44 billion space ...

At issue is the agency’s “Lunar Terrain Vehicle” (LTV) contract. In April 2024, the space agency awarded a few tens of millions of dollars to three companies—Intuitive Machines, Lunar Outpost, and ...

Inside the American Museum of Natural History's glass cube, the Frederick Phineas and Sandra Priest Rose Center for Earth and ...