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Apollo 11 moon landing
NASA capsule flies over Apollo landing sites, heads home
NASA’s Orion capsule is on its way home from the moon to wrap up a three-week test flight. The capsule and its test dummies came within 80 miles of the far side of the moon Monday.
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NASA capsule on way to moon after launch by giant new rocket
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EXPLAINER: NASA’s new mega moon rocket, Orion crew capsule
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NASA’s moon rocket returns to pad for next launch attempt
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Astronaut James McDivitt, Apollo 9 commander, dies at 93
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Take 2: NASA aims for Saturday launch of new moon rocket
NASA will try again Saturday to launch its new moon rocket on a test flight. The first attempt on Monday was thwarted by engine trouble.
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NASA scrubs launch of new moon rocket after engine problem
NASA has scrubbed the launch of its new moon rocket on a no-crew test flight after a cascade of last-minute problems, including unexplained trouble related to an engine.
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NASA moon rocket on track for launch despite lightning hits
NASA’s new moon rocket remains on track for a Monday liftoff, despite a series of lightning strikes at the launch pad.
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EXPLAINER: NASA tests new moon rocket, 50 years after Apollo
NASA’s new moon rocket makes its debut next week in a high-stakes test flight before astronauts get on top.
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NASA’s moon rocket moved to launch pad for 1st test flight
NASA’s new moon rocket has arrived at the launch pad for its first test flight. The 322-foot rocket emerged Tuesday night from its mammoth hangar at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center.
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Buzz Aldrin flight-to-moon jacket sells at auction for $2.8M
Buzz Aldrin’s jacket worn on his historic first mission to the moon’s surface in 1969 has been auctioned off to a bidder for nearly $2.8 million.
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New lunar rover in the works as NASA moon mission advances
A new lunar rover is under development by Lockheed Martin and Goodyear as NASA gears up for a return to the moon.
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NASA aiming for late August test flight of giant moon rocket
NASA is shooting for a late August launch of its giant, new moon rocket. Wednesday’s announcement came on the 53rd anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.
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Scientists grow plants in lunar dirt, next stop moon
Scientists for the first time have grown plants in soil from the moon collected by NASA’s Apollo astronauts.
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Q&A: Richard Linklater on time, nostalgia & ‘Apollo 10 1/2'
Bike rides, kickball, Jiffy Pop, Jell-O and other well-remembered details crowd Richard Linklater’s “Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood,” an affectionate ode to his childhood growing up outside Houston in the late 1960s.
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Review: Linklater charmingly chronicles life in 1969 Houston
The geniuses at NASA accidentally build the lunar module a little too small for an adult in “Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood.”
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Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2021
They both carved out sterling reputations as military and political leaders over years of public service.
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Missing moon rock from Apollo 17 mission back in Louisiana
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana has recovered a missing lunar rock gifted to the state to commemorate the last manned U.S. mission to the moon after it turned up in the hands of a man who recycles wooden plaques.
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Podcast revisits how the biggest stories unfolded on TV news
A new podcast series revisits how broadcast journalists covered some of the biggest stories, and tells some fascinating behind-the-scenes details.
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60 years since 1st American in space: Tourists lining up
Sixty years after Alan Shepard became the first American in space, everyday people are on the verge of following in his cosmic footsteps.
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Astronaut Michael Collins, Apollo 11 pilot, dead of cancer
Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins has died at age 90. He orbited the moon alone while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made their historic first steps on the moon in 1969.
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China spacecraft lands on moon to bring rocks back to Earth
BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese spacecraft sent to return lunar rocks to Earth collected its first samples Wednesday after landing on the moon, the government announced, adding to a string of successes for Beijing’s increasingly ambitious space program.
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Trump’s plan to celebrate space launch hits weather snag
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump’s plan to celebrate the first space launch of American astronauts from U.S. soil in nearly a decade on Wednesday hit a snag when the mission was postponed at the last minute because of bad weather.
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‘Houston, we’ve had a problem’: Remembering Apollo 13 at 50
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Apollo 13′s astronauts never gave a thought to their mission number as they blasted off for the moon 50 years ago.
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Apollo 15 astronaut Al Worden, who circled moon, dies at 88
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Apollo 15 astronaut Al Worden, who circled the moon alone in 1971 while his two crewmates test-drove the first lunar rover, died Wednesday at age 88.
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Virginia city renames road for Apollo 11 astronaut Armstrong
HAMPTON, Va. (AP) — The Hampton City Council has voted to place the name of Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong on a road which had been named for a Confederate general.
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Council mulls changing street named for Confederate general
HAMPTON, Va. (AP) — The Hampton City Council is considering a resolution that would change a street named for a Confederate general to one named for Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon.
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Neil Armstrong donates personal items to Cosmosphere museum
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) — The family of astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man to step on the moon, has donated two items that were aboard the Apollo 11 mission in 1969 to the Cosmosphere space museum in Hutchinson.
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NASA manager casts doubt on 2024 moon landing by astronauts
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A top NASA manager cast doubt Wednesday on the space agency’s ability to land astronauts on the moon by 2024.
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After first steps on moon, crew welcomed home with aloha
HONOLULU (AP) — Neil Armstrong, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin and Michael Collins’ trip to the moon concluded with a stay in Hawaii.
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State fair remembers moon landing with butter astronauts
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The moon may be made of cheese, but these astronauts are made of butter.
The Ohio State Fair is commemorating the 50th anniversary of the moon landing with life-size butter sculptures of Neil Armstrong and his fellow astronauts.
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Senators want to rename NASA facility after Neil Armstrong
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Ohio’s two U.S. senators plan on asking Congress to rename a NASA research facility in northern Ohio after astronaut Neil Armstrong.
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Moon back in NASA’s court 50 years after 1st lunar landing
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Fifty years after humanity’s first lunar footsteps, the moon is back in NASA’s court.
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Pope: Moon landing inspires progress on justice, environment
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis is hoping that the 50th anniversary of the first moon walk inspires efforts to help our “common home” on Earth.
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MOONSTRUCK: One giant leap for mankind
Sunday, July 20, 1969, was a day I will never forget.
I was working at Longview Fibre Co. in San Leandro, California, as a “glue boy” and bundler putting together cardboard boxes for Green Giant Co-ops and much bigger boxes for the Central Valley lettuce growers.
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