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During their historic first crewed mission orbiting the Moon, the Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders performed a Christmas Eve broadcast, reciting the initial ten verses of ...

ABOVE VIDEO: In 2022, NASA released a video special to recognize the 50th Anniversary of NASA’s Apollo 17 Moon Mission BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – Apollo 17, the final NASA mission to send humans to the ...

James Cameron may already be deep into “Avatar: Fire and Ash,” but that doesn’t mean he’s done dreaming up what comes next. Oscar-winning costume designer Deborah Scott, who has worked closely with ...

On Dec. 11, 1972, Apollo 17 became the last mission to launch humans on the moon. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com] With two astronauts on board, the lunar module Challenger touched ...

Dec. 11 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1816, Indiana joined the United States as its 19th state. In 1936, Britain's King Edward VIII abdicated to marry American divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson.

Scientists have discovered that moonquakes, not meteoroids, are responsible for shifting terrain near the Apollo 17 landing site. Their analysis points to a still-active fault that has been generating ...

Artemis III is NASA’s mission intended to return astronauts to the moon. The plan has been to use SpaceX’s still-experimental Starship — the most powerful rocket system ever built — for the last leg ...

The Apollo Prayer League worked to send Bibles to the moon. After succeeding in 1971, some of those Bibles on mircroform went to a church in Knoxville. It was a unique gift for a unique church. The ...

Apollo 17 brought home more than dust and stones. A new study reports that some lunar rocks carry an unusual sulfur signature that does not match Earth’s. That mismatch lives in tiny mineral grains ...

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