An ordinary felt-tip pen that helped save two astronauts from being stranded on the Moon has been sold at auction for ...

In July 1969, a quick-thinking Aldrin used the writing instrument to rearm the engine arm circuit of the lunar module "Eagle" ...

Popularly, the most famous images from NASA have mostly been appreciated in terms of artistic merit. Collectively, though, ...

Fifty-seven years ago today, on July 16, 1969, three astronauts sat atop a Saturn V and lifted off on the most dangerous ...

It took 43 days and a custom cage to bring the 4.5-tonne test command module from Washington to Castle Hill in Sydney's north ...

A broken engine switch threatened to leave the first Moon walkers trapped on the lunar surface until an ordinary pen became ...

Capt. Joe Engle is known as the only person to fly both the X-15 and Space Shuttle, thus being the only person to enter space ...

With all this talk and excitement about going ‘back to moon’ in 2027 (or 2028), this is a great time to look back at the ...

On July 16, 1969, NASA astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins blasted off on their famous mission to land ...

How Meta, Weka, Vast, and Red Hat are rethinking storage as AI inference outpaces memory supply In the early days of space ...

Gordon Cooper’s watch is one of many that will be conserved. It was a grand watch, a combination timepiece-stopwatch built by Omega to be water-resistant, shock-proof, and able to withstand 12 Gs of ...

NASA released detailed operational documentation on July 15, 2026, spelling out — for the first time — the precise docking sequence, approach geometries, and software control assignments that will ...