Apollo 11 moon landing

NASA's Orion spacecraft flew past the moon on Monday, December 5, 2022. The crew capsule and its test dummies will aim for a Pacific Ocean splashdown on Sunday, December 11, 2022, off the coast of San Diego after a three-week test flight, setting the stage for astronauts on the next flight in a couple years. (NASA via AP)

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.

NASA's new moon rocket lifts off from Launch Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022. This launch is the first flight test of the Artemis program. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

NASA capsule on way to moon after launch by giant new rocket

FILE - This combination of photos shows the Saturn V rocket with Apollo 12's spacecraft aboard on the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in 1969, left, and the new moon rocket for the Artemis program with the Orion spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on March 18, 2022. (AP Photo, File)

EXPLAINER: NASA’s new mega moon rocket, Orion crew capsule

NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard is seen atop the mobile launcher as it rolls out to Launch Pad 39B, Friday, Nov. 4, 2022, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (Joel Kowsky/NASA via AP)

NASA’s moon rocket returns to pad for next launch attempt

In this undated photo provided by NASA, astronaut James A. McDivitt poses for a picture. McDivitt, who commanded the Apollo 9 mission testing the first complete set of equipment to go to the moon, died Thursday, Oct. 13, 2022. He was 93. (NASA via AP)

Astronaut James McDivitt, Apollo 9 commander, dies at 93

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In this photo provided by NASA, NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard is seen atop the mobile launcher at Launch Pad 39B, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2022, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla.. NASA's Artemis I flight test is the first integrated test of the agency's deep space exploration systems: (Joel Kowsky/NASA via AP)

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.

The NASA moon rocket stands ready at sunrise on Pad 39B before the Artemis 1 mission to orbit the moon at the Kennedy Space Center, Monday, Aug. 29, 2022, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. (Joel Kowsky/NASA via AP)

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.

The NASA moon rocket stands ready less than 24 hours before it is scheduled to launch on Pad 39B for the Artemis 1 mission to orbit the moon at the Kennedy Space Center, Sunday, Aug. 28, 2022, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

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.

This combination of photos shows the Saturn V rocket with Apollo 12's spacecraft aboard on the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in 1969, left. At right is NASA's new moon rocket for the Artemis program with the Orion spacecraft on top at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on March 18, 2022. Liftoff for the first Artemis mission is set for Monday, Aug. 29, 2022. (AP Photo)

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.

The NASA Artemis rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard stands on pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2022. NASA is aiming for an Aug. 29 liftoff for the lunar test flight. (AP Photo/Terry Renna)

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.

This photo provided on Tuesday, July 26, 2022, by Sotheby's, shows a jacket worn by astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin on the historic first mission to the moon's surface in 1969, which sold for nearly $2.8 million at auction. (Courtesy of Sotheby's via AP)

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.

FILE - Rover alone, looking north, on the west edge of Mount Hadley is at upper right edge of picture, the most distant lunar feature visible is about 25 kilometers away, Aug. 1971. Goodyear is teaming with Lockheed Martin on the development of a vehicle planned for use on the moon, providing airless tires for the project. This isn't Goodyear's first venture into space, as it supplied essential products for NASA's Apollo program, including the Apollo 11 mission. (AP Photo, File)

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.

FILE - Invited guests and NASA employees take photos as NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard is rolled out of High Bay 3 of the Vehicle Assembly Building for the first time, at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Thursday, March 17, 2022. On Wednesday, July 20, 2022, the 53rd anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, NASA said it’s shooting for a late August test launch of its giant, new moon rocket. (Aubrey Gemignani/NASA via AP, File)

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.

In this 2021 photo provided by the University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, a researcher harvests a thale cress plant growing in lunar soil, at a laboratory in Gainesville, Fla. For the first time, scientists have used lunar soil collected by long-ago moonwalkers to grow plants, with results promising enough that NASA and others already are envisioning hothouses on the moon for the next generation of lunar explorers. (Tyler Jones/UF/IFAS via AP)

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.

Richard Linklater poses for a portrait at the Four Seasons Hotel in Austin, Texas, on March 12, 2022, to promote his film “Apollo 10 1/2." (Photo by Jack Plunkett/Invision/AP)

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.

This image released by Netflix shows the character Stan, voiced by Milo Coy, in the animated film "Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood." (Netflix via AP)

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.”

FILE - Secretary of State Colin Powell looks on as President Bush addresses State Department employees at the State Department in Washington, on Feb. 15, 2001. Powell, who died Oct. 18, 2021, was a trailblazing soldier and diplomat. (AP Photo/Kenneth Lambert, File)

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.

FILE - In this Monday, May 3, 2021, file photo, a fragment of the moon rock collected by astronaut John Young, commander of the Apollo 16 lunar mission, is displayed, in Washington. Louisiana has recovered a moon rock that was gifted to the state to commemorate the last manned U.S. mission to the moon, but then went missing. The Advocate of Baton Rouge reports that the rock from the 1972 Apollo 17 landing was in the hands of the Louisiana State Museum on Tuesday., Sept. 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

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.

President John F. Kennedy appears in a motorcade with his wife Jacqueline Kennedy in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, left, astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., descends steps of Lunar Module ladder as he prepares to walk on the moon on July 20, 1969, center, and smoke billows from the north tower of New York's World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001 after terrorists crashed two hijacked airliners into the World Trade Center. A new podcast based on Joe Garner's 1998 book, “We Interrupt This Broadcast," narrated by Brian Williams, will be available on July 20. Episodes in the first season explore the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, John F. Kennedy's assassination and the moon landing. (AP Photo/NASA via AP/AP Photo)

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A new podcast series revisits how broadcast journalists covered some of the biggest stories, and tells some fascinating behind-the-scenes details.

FILE - In this May 5, 1961 file photo, astronaut Alan Shepard sits in his capsule at Cape Canaveral, Fla., aboard a Mercury-Redstone rocket. Freedom 7 was the first American manned suborbital space flight, making Shepard the first American in space. (AP Photo)

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.

FILE - In this June 19, 1969 file photo, Apollo 11 command module pilot astronaut Michael Collins takes a break during training for the moon mission, in Cape Kennedy, Fla. Collins, who piloted the ship from which Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin left to make their historic first steps on the moon in 1969, died Wednesday, April 28, 2021, of cancer, his family said. He was 90. (AP Photo/File)

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.

This image taken by camera aboard Chang'e-5 spacecraft provided by China National Space Administration shows a moon surface during its landing process Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020. The Chinese spacecraft landed on the moon Tuesday to bring back lunar rocks to Earth for the first time since the 1970s, the government announced. (China National Space Administration via AP)

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.

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.

This April 1970 photo made available by NASA shows the interior of the Apollo 13 lunar module with the "mail box," an ad hoc device which the crew assembled while in space to remove carbon dioxide from the air. It was designed and tested on the ground in Houston. Because of the explosion of one of the oxygen tanks in the service module, the three men had to use the lunar module as a "lifeboat" on their way back to Earth. (NASA via AP)

‘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.

This undated photo made available by NASA shows astronauts Al Worden, center, Dave Scott, left, and Jim Irwin with a moon rover mock-up. Worden, who circled the moon alone in 1971 while his two crewmates tried out the first lunar rover, has died at age 88, his family said Wednesday, March 18, 2020. (NASA via AP)

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.

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.

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.

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.

This August 2019 photo released by NASA, shows the core stage for NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket at the agency’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. Kenneth Bowersox, acting associate administrator for human exploration, is casting doubt on the space agency's ability to land astronauts on the moon by 2024. Bowersox told a Congressional subcommittee Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2019, that NASA is doing its best to meet the White House-imposed deadline. But he says he wouldn't bet anything on it. (Eric Bordelon/NASA via AP)

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.

FILE - In this July 24, 1969, file photo from the U.S. Navy, Lt. Clancy Hatleberg closes the Apollo 11 spacecraft hatch as astronauts Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin, Jr., await helicopter pickup from their life raft after splashdown in the Pacific Ocean, 900 miles southwest of Hawaii, returning to Earth from a successful lunar landing mission. Hatleberg's mission was to decontaminate the astronauts and their command module, Columbia, immediately following splashdown. The astronauts' trip to the moon concluded with a stay in Hawaii. July 20 marked the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, but after those historic first steps NASA still had to get the three astronauts safely back to Earth - and the waters off Hawaii are where the cone-shaped spacecraft splashed down. (Milt Putnam/U.S. Navy via AP, File)

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.

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine takes his grandchildren Steven Dudukovich, 6, and Jean Dudukovich, 8, to see the butter sculptures of astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins in the Dairy Products Building inside the Ohio State Fair in Columbus, Ohio, after the opening on Wednesday, July 24, 2019. (Kyle Robertson/The Columbus Dispatch via AP)

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.

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.

FILE - This artist's rendering made available by Elon Musk on Friday, Sept. 29, 2017 shows SpaceX's mega-rocket design on the Earth's moon. Amazon's Jeff Bezos and Virgin Galactic's Richard Branson favor going back to the moon before Mars. Musk also is rooting for the moon, although his heart's on Mars. (SpaceX via AP, File)

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.

Guests relax in the rocket garden at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex during the Apollo 11 anniversary, Saturday, July 20, 2019, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

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.

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.