Elon Musk’s SpaceX dominates the news these days, but a host of oddballs involved in space exploration came before him.

These are the opening lines of the 'In Event of Moon Disaster' speech, written in 1969 in case the moon landing astronauts did not make it home. They were composed by President Richard Nixon’s ...

The NASA History Office brings you the new Spring 2025 issue of NASA History News & Notes reflecting on some of the ...

From the lunar landing to the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, here are some bold space missions in history.

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While there, he was the editor of the Harvard Law Review. Before Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin became the second man to walk on the moon in 1969, he was one of the 2.4 million youth participants in Boy ...

Mr. John William “Jack” Spencer, age 88, of Columbus, Ohio, formerly of Switzerland County, Indiana. Jack was born on March 6, 1937, in Madison, Indiana, the son of the late Eugene Simpson and Mildred ...

Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin and the late Michael Collins). Many notable members include James Cameron, Jane Goodall, Kathryn Sullivan, Richard Garriot, Walter Cronkite and Sylvia Earle. Astronauts ...

Top row from left are Neil Armstrong, Apollo 11 – 1969; Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, Apollo 11 – 1969; Charles “Pete” Conrad, Apollo 12 – 1969 and Alan L. Bean, Apollo 12 – 1969.

People on the ground cheered and cried as the three NASA astronauts – Neil Armstrong, Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin Jr., and Michael Collins – boarded the rocket for their 8-day mission to be the first ...