On 26 May 1969, the command module of Apollo 10 hit Earth’s atmosphere travelling at 36,397 feet per second, or 39,937.7 ...

Here’s a look at the first moon landing on July 20, 1969. The moon landing was watched by an estimated 600 million people around the world. Facts July 20, 1969 – [4:17 p.m. EDT] Apollo 11 becomes the ...

From the day the Soviets put an astronaut into space in April 1961, the race was on with America to get a man on the moon.

This week, several family members of Connecticut veterans, were bestowed military medals awarded to their loved ones that ...

During the regular school calendar students take field trips to enhance knowledge best engaged outside the classroom, and ...

The famed Apollo 13 rescue has been the focus of several movies, including a 2024 Netflix documentary. Not all the films have told an accurate tale.

Other museum highlights include an entire gallery devoted to Orville and Wilbur Wright, the Ohio brothers who invented, built and flew the world’s first successful airplane. On display here is the ...

Apollo 17 astronauts reported a string of unexplained lights and objects around the Moon during their 7–14 December 1972 mission, according to newly released Pentagon UAP files, while a long-time ...

When the first Apollo mission to carry astronauts to orbit launched on October 11, 1968, everyone at NASA sighed in relief. Apollo 7 rose on a pillar of flame from Kennedy Space Center’s Pad 34 on ...

CHATHAM – Four astronauts hurtled back to Earth last week, splashing down into the Pacific Ocean near Southern California where helicopters awaited to lift them up and away from their floating ...

The takeaway: The code that guided Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the lunar surface has been released in digital form for public access. Nearly six decades after the Apollo 11 mission, the original ...