Did you realize Apollo 13 is 40 years old?

Written by: William Atkins | Published in: SpaceOn September 12, 1962, American president John F. Kennedy made his famous "Moon Speech", which spurred the United States to land on the Moon just seven years later with the Apollo 11 lunar mission. Now fiftieth years later, we remember back and look forward to more adventures in space.

Do you want to peek in on the International Space Station crewmembers? Or maybe you would like to check in on the flight controllers at NASA's Mission Control Center at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas? Well, now you can with new apps from NASA.

{loadposition william08}The new Space Station Live! website and ISSLive!

The Apollo missions to the Moon continue to help define the core composition of the Moon as NASA scientists investigate 1969-1977 data with the use of modern 21st-century technology.  

NASA announced on September 2, 2010, that it will be developing a mission to the Sun over the next few years that will be the closest we have ever gone to our local star, the Sun. Five investigations will help us unravel mysteries of our Sun.  

The most detailed off-lunar photograph so far taken of the Apollo 11 landing site was recently taken from 15 miles (24 kilometers) above the lunar surface by the NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) -- for any of you skeptics out there who still believe the Moon has never before felt the footsteps of man.

NASA just announced that the STS-134 space shuttle mission scheduled for April 19, will be delayed to April 29, 2011, to resolve a scheduling conflict with a Russian Progress re-supply vehicle.

On April 12, 1981, the first U.S. space shuttle mission (STS-1) launched from the Kennedy Space Center. On April 12, 2011, NASA will celebrate 30 years of space shuttle flights.

To commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Mission, NASA has released the source code of the software for the Apollo Guidance Computer, that helped man set foot on Moon, under the GNU GPLv2 license.

Written by: William Atkins | Published in: SpaceWith the death of Neil Armstrong, the world lost a hero; however, we gained much from his successes in life, and those of his fellow Apollo astronauts. Let’s go back, at least in our memories, to the Sea of Tranquility and that day when the Apollo 11 astronauts were the first to step on the Moon.