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NASA's Apollo 8 mission was the first to orbit the moon. No US spacecraft has returned to the moon since 1972, but that's all about to change.
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Countdown to liftoff: How Artemis II builds on Apollo and prepares for the future
NASA’s Artemis II mission is the first crewed deep-space flight since Apollo 17 in 1972.
Like Apollo 8 in 1968, NASA's Artemis 2 mission from Florida will send a crew of astronauts around the moon and back without landing.
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When Apollo 12, NASA's second lunar landing mission, launched from Kennedy Space Center, the space vehicle was struck by lightning— twice.
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Artemis II crew faced toilet issue on spacecraft hours after launch of first moon mission in decades
The Artemis II crew experienced some toilet troubles on their spacecraft just hours into the first moon mission in more than five decades. The crew aboard the Orion spacecraft informed its mission team about the issue shortly after lifting off from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral,
This collection consists of the following material documenting the structural testing of Grumman's Apollo Lunar Module system: Grumman reports, notes, schedules, and test results; NASA mission reports and flight plans; charts; photographs; posters; and one ...