As we move into the second full week of February, a very special Apollo mission was conducting some very unique science on the surface of the moon! Welcome to the Apollo 14 (AS-509) mission, 51 years ...
The Apollo program should be remembered as much for landing the first humans on the Moon as it is for countless demonstrations of problem solving and ingenuity, of continual fine-tuning and honing of ...
Apollo 14 isn’t a mission that jumps to the fore of most peoples’ minds. It didn’t break ground like Apollo 11, which landed the first humans on the moon. And it didn’t cause the stir of Apollo 13, a ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Apollo 14—the third crewed mission that landed on the ...
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A collection of 36 fragmented Bibles that went into space during the Apollo 14 mission, which were found in a Knoxville church, is now up for auction. The Bibles are up for auction ...
The crew was Alan B. Shepard Jr., Commander, Edgar D. Mitchell, Lunar Module Pilot and Stuart A. Roosa, Command Module Pilot. It was the third manned lunar landing mission. It was launched from ...
In the wake of the near disaster with Apollo 13, NASA took precautionary plans with the following mission to tighten safety regulations and procedures. The eighth crewed mission in the Apollo program, ...
The Church of the Savior United Church of Christ in Knoxville got an unexpected gift from space in 1972 − one that continues ...
MIAMI – Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the moon, has died in South Florida. He was 85. Mitchell’s daughter, Kimberly Mitchell, says he died Thursday night at a West Palm ...
A Rolex watch that made a trip to the Moon is going up for auction – and the price will be out of this world. RR Auction house is offering the GMT-Master ‘Pepsi’ model watch which belonged originally ...