Nasa history

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This Las Vegas newspaper captures the excitement as two American astronauts explore the moon's surface on July 20. Earlier in the day, President Richard Nixon had led the nation in prayer for a successful moon landing.

The highlight of the last human spaceflight to the Moon occurred on 11 Dec. 1972, with the lunar landing of Apollo 17. After a four-day journey to the Moon, astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt descended to the lunar surface while crewmate Ronald Evans remained in lunar orbit. Schmitt, the only professional geologist to walk on the Moon, and Cernan landed in the Taurus-Littrow highlands region, an area that offered a unique combination of old and young geologic material. Credit…

This is a montage of the individual portraits of the 35-member 1978 class of astronaut candidates. The Astronaut Class of 1978 was NASA’s first new group of astronauts since 1969. This class was notable for many reasons, including having the first African-American and first Asian-American astronauts, and the first women.

A History of Exobiology and Astrobiology at NASA

November 16, 2022 - NASA aims to make a fourth attempt to launch its uncrewed inaugural Artemis mission to the moon, after weeks of technical setbacks and foul weather delayed earlier attempts to send their huge, next-generation rocketship into space. infographic

Apollo 17 Gene Cernan prints

NASA Apollo Lunar Spacesuit Manual - Free download as PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read online for free. NASA Apollo Lunar Spacesuit guidebook. Published by NASA in 1971.

Thousands of photos from Nasa’s Apollo missions to the moon have been added to Flickr

This ominous vast metallic structure is the inners of the gigantic liquid oxygen tank that forms part of stage 1 of a Saturn V Rocket, as used in NASA’s Apollo and Skylab projects.

NASA Astronaut Victor Glover Works to Upgrade the Station

Shuttle Launch Concept

Upclose view of the most flown NASA orbiter (33 missions) as she is attached to the orange fuel tank containing liguid hydrogen and liguid oxygen oxidizer (# ET-120) and two solid rocket boosters for the upcoming STS-120 mission to the International Space Station at 1138H EST on Oct. 23, 2007. The launch window extends for 5 days. Note the remote cameras (white) that are installed on the Mobile Launch Platform to watch/record specific components during the launch process. - Photo taken at…