At 3:58pm (EST), 55 years ago on November 24, 1969, Apollo 12 completed its 10-day “Pinpoint Mission” with one more precise action, splashing down in the Pacific Ocean about 3 miles from its target ...
Gordon Jr. remained with the Apollo 12 Command and Service Modules (CSM) in lunar orbit while Conrad and Bean descended in the LM to explore the moon. Surveyor 3 soft-landed on the moon on April 19, ...
Fewer people paid attention when NASA sent its second mission to the moon four months later: Apollo 12, which landed on Nov. 19, 1969 — 55 years ago today. And that was ironic. Because while ...
12, 1967, NASA launched the Pioneer 8 spacecraft ... or high-energy particles from outside the solar system. — Apollo 17: NASA's Last Apollo Moon Landing Mission in Pictures — NASA's 17 ...
NASA has announced more delays in sending astronauts back to the moon more than 50 years after Apollo CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA announced more delays Thursday in sending astronauts back to the ...
Twenty-four astronauts flew to the moon during NASA's vaulted Apollo program, with 12 landing on it. The final bootprints in the lunar dust were made during Apollo 17 in December 1972.
For the second time this year, NASA has pushed back its timeline to land the first Americans on the Moon since the Apollo era. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson on Thursday revealed that due to an ...
On Dec. 7, 1972, NASA launched the last crew to land on the moon with the Apollo 17 mission. Three NASA astronauts flew to the moon that day: Gene Cernan was the commander, Ronald Evans was the ...