June 2015
Astronauts having a laugh
... exploration of the early 1970s. It was the time of lunar missions and flights to the orbiting space station, Skylab. A simple...seen here during a spacewalk outside Skylab, persuaded NASA Mission Control that he’d smuggled his wife onboard the space...
02 July 2019
Orion spacecraft's launch abort test completed successfully
...astronauts to the Moon in the Orion spacecraft for Artemis missions,” said Bill Hill, deputy associate administrator for Exploration ...since manufacturing the Saturn V stages for NASA’s Apollo lunar missions in the 1960s. Orion is part of NASA’s ...
December 2014
India joins the major league with the Mars Orbiter Mission
... more scientific content. The first was a natural follow-up to India’s maiden mission to the moon, Chandrayaan-1 in 2008, which discovered water. The success of the lunar mission had given confidence to the Indian space community that it was capable...
