Even if the flags have remained standing when crews rocketed ... were challenged by the prospect of Apollo astronauts raising a flag on the moon. "They designed a flagpole with a horizontal ...

Over the past 50 years, 6 flags have been planted on the lunar surface, and the first one was in 1969. Scientists have been ...

Firefly's "Blue Moon" and ispace's "Resilience" are the latest in an ongoing push to gain private-sector experience exploring ...

"Image of Apollo ... astronaut Eugene Cernan became the last man to walk on the moon. The Chandrayaan-2 mission launched on July 22, 2019, exactly 50 years after the Apollo 11 mission and two ...

Apollo 11's flag raising on the ancient lunar surface took all of 10 minutes during Neil Armstrong's and Buzz Aldrin's two-and-a-half hour moonwalking adventure in July 1969. But that seminal event in ...

Each of the astronauts had two children ... were the nation's first three-man space crew in the Apollo program designed to put men on the moon in 1969. There was no immediate word on just how ...

The watch most associated with astronauts, of course, is the Omega Speedmaster. It was the first watch worn to the moon during the Apollo 11 mission ... wider version, in two sizes: one to ...

With the nearly full moon shining overhead, two companies ... Firefly's Blue Ghost mission is a culmination of what the last Apollo astronaut to walk on the moon observed is a fitting tribute ...

Mars in 2024 was the site of the sad end of a machine that lived far beyond expectations. On January 18, NASA's Ingenuity ...

Lost Apollo 1 astronauts memorialized at long-abandoned Launch Complex 34 Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. Allen went on to log more than 900 hours in space piloting two ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida early Wednesday and deployed two commercial ... on the Moon by a US spacecraft since the last Apollo mission in ...