The U.S. is in the midst of a second Space Race, and NASA is in a time crunch. How can it keep ambitions for the Moon and ...

NASA’s new mobile launcher under construction at Kennedy ... to the lunar surface for the first time since Apollo 17 in 1972. That mission has been delayed until mid-2027. The use of ML2 on ...

Apollo 10 successfully launched from LC-39B ... from the transfer aisle into High Bay 1 for stacking on the Mobile Launcher (ML). A couple of weeks later, the S-II second stage was hoisted into ...

Mobile Launcher-1 was originally built by Hanstel ... Both LC-39A and LC-39B were built for the Apollo program and were completed by 1968. Both pads were built in a “clean pad” configuration ...

The documentary tells the story of Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee, who died after a fire erupted in their spacecraft on the launch pad. It was the opening scene of the 1995 feature film ...

The last time that a human set foot on the Moon, it was December 1972 — when the crew of the Apollo 17 mission spent a few days on the surface before returning to Earth. Since then only unmanned ...

The National Air and Space Museum holds approximately 17,000 space artifacts in its collection. More than 3,500 of those stem from the historic Apollo Moon landing effort, with 400 objects related ...

Mankind's first triumphant step off this world. On 20 July 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the Moon. Highlights of our collection of ...