NASA Names First Moon Mission Astronauts
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NASA Names First Moon Mission Astronauts
2023-04-03 20:01:48
by Dan McCue

HOUSTON — Christina Hammock Koch will be the first woman and Victor Glover the first African American to venture around the moon, NASA announced on Monday, as it revealed the four-person flight crew for the upcoming lunar orbital flight of... Read More

Astronaut Recalls the Peril of Apollo 13 and Joys of a Test Pilot’s Life
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Astronaut Recalls the Peril of Apollo 13 and Joys of a Test Pilot’s Life
2022-04-14 14:57:44
by Dan McCue

WASHINGTON — By April 1970, Americans had grown pretty difficult to shock.  The assassinations that bracketed the past decade had seen to that, as had an intractable war and the seeming unraveling of society that saw generations at each other's... Read More

<strong>NASA Heads to the Moon Again but Only if It Fixes Its Problems</strong>
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NASA Heads to the Moon Again but Only if It Fixes Its Problems
2022-03-01 21:48:42
by Tom Ramstack

WASHINGTON — If there was a single lesson from a congressional hearing Tuesday on plans for a U.S. return to the moon, it is that space exploration remains filled with dangers, technical difficulties and enormous costs. The difference between NASA’s... Read More

NASA Administrator Makes Space Resource History with 10 Cent Check
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NASA Administrator Makes Space Resource History with 10 Cent Check
2021-08-24 15:27:53
by Victoria Turner

WASHINGTON -- The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Administrator Bill Nelson handed over a check for 10 cents to Lunar Outpost CEO Justin Cyrus at yesterday’s Space Foundation 36th Space Symposium.  The check was 10% of the Colorado-based startup’s $1... Read More

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