One woman in particular, Katherine Johnson, became known for her work calculating trajectories for the first Americans in space, Alan Shepard and John Glenn, and later for the Apollo Lunar Module ...

But first, he insisted that Katherine Johnson double-check ... her help with calculations for syncing up the Apollo lunar lander with the command module in lunar orbit. Her work didn’t end ...

The daughter of a "Hidden Figure" will represent her mother Saturday evening as she is inducted into the International Air & ...

The horns mounted on the front of Intuitive Machines' Moon RACER drivable demo unit are for Earth-based show only, as is the ...

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The Apollo missions still inspire people today, decades after they took place. A fortunate side effect of the global public relations campaign is that a lot of information is publicly available ...

The Apollo IX mission test-flew the command module and lunar module together in Earth orbit. Dave Scott’s spacewalk was one of the most-photographed parts of the mission and one of the images ...

Apollo 11. On July 20, 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed in the Lunar Module Eagle and became the first humans to step foot on the lunar surface while astronaut Michael Collins ...

Audio clip: Charlie Brown was selected by the astronauts as the codename for the Apollo 10 command module and his friend Snoopy was the call sign for the lunar module. Mosher: NASA launched 10 of ...

but Apollo 11 was slated to land on the moon. It launched on July 16, 1969 at 9: 23 a.m. Seventy-six hours later, it entered lunar orbit. There was a television camera on board the lunar module ...