The Apollo program was the first to bring humans to the moon. Even though the program began in the early 1960s until 1972, with 12 astronauts walking the moon's surface during this time frame, there ...

Liftoff of the Apollo 17 Saturn V Moon Rocket from Pad A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, at 12:33 a.m., December 17, 1972. Apollo 17, the final lunar landing mission, was the first ...

Almost forgotten now, the mission circled the Earth for 10 days, performing a series of tests with the lunar lander. What it lacked in glory it made up for in technological contributions. By Kenneth ...

While landing humans on the moon was indeed historic and the boot-kicked lunar dust has settled, perhaps that achievement had more of an impact on society than we realized. When you purchase through ...

Die letzte bemannte Landung auf dem Mond erfolgte am 11. Dezember 1972 mit Apollo 17. Präsident Kennedy kündigte 1961 an, noch vor dem Jahresende 1969 Menschen auf den Mond zu bringen. Damit ...

NASA’s Apollo program, a monumental endeavor spanning from 1961 to 1972, culminated in the historic Apollo 11 mission that landed the first humans on the Moon on July 20, 1969. The program’s total ...

Silicon Valley, its visionaries like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, and the entire tech revolution may not have happened without the Cold War space race. President John F. Kennedy’s iconic 1962 speech, ...

This collection consists of 160 Apollo era presentation lantern slides, 3.25 by 4 inch mounts as well as a few 35 mm slides. These slides were presumedly used by NASA as part of informational ...

Im Dezember 1972 haben die letzten Menschen den Mond besucht. 50 Jahre später ist die Nasa auf dem Weg zurück zum Erdtrabanten. Washington D.C. – Als eine der bis heute größten Leistungen der ...

[Mike Stewart] powers up a thrust meter from an Apollo lunar module. This bit of kit passed inspection on September 25, 1969. Fortunately [Mike] was able to dig up some old documentation which ...