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I n an unpredictable era that has seen the Cold War rekindled, it's worth remembering a remarkable event that took place 50 ...
Ed Smylie, who became a quiet hero of the space age in 1970 when he and his fellow NASA engineers jury-rigged an air filter ...
Legendary Southern Californian band WAR will play two headline shows ahead of their previously announced UK festival dates in ...
Experts agree China is a valid threat to NASA's return to the moon plans. Here's why there is a rush to get SLS off the ...
NASA’s learned a lot about the Moon since Apollo. But a perfect landing still requires incredible planning and scientific ...
She noted the upcoming 50th anniversary of the Apollo-Soyuz mission that brought NASA astronauts and Soviet Union cosmonauts together in space for the first time in 1975. "If you want to go fast ...
The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) was the first human spaceflight mission conducted jointly by two nations. A Russian Soyuz launched on July 15, 1975, followed by the U.S. Apollo launch on the ...
Produced by NASA contractor Rockwell International this circa 1978 film was made shortly before the successful ApolloSoyuz space mission It is ... footage from prior Apollo missions and concept ...
The Soviet Union’s Soyuz 19 launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 8:20 a.m. EDT, carrying cosmonauts Alexey Leonov and Valery Kubasov. At 3:50 p.m. the Apollo 18 spacecraft ...
On July 15, 1975, the first joint space mission between the United States and the Soviet Union blasted off into orbit. They called it the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. This mission ceremoniously ...
A previous artificial eclipse, produced by the US Apollo spacecraft during the Apollo–Soyuz mission back in 1975. Now a new team will create the events at will. See fact box below. A previous ...