Celebrating the 45th anniversary of the first lunar landing, President Barack Obama on Tuesday recognized the "courage" of astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins, who participated in the mission.
Space Exploration
Jul 22, 2014
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Will 'Yutu' phone home? Will Yutu live to see another Earthrise?
Space Exploration
Feb 11, 2014
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NASA's footage of the first moon landing promised a future of sci-fi heroism that never came to pass, according to a new study.
Space Exploration
Oct 4, 2013
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Looking very similar to the iconic first footprint on the Moon from the Apollo 11 landing, this new raw image from the Curiosity rover on Mars shows one of the first "scuff" marks from the rover's wheels on a small sandy ...
Space Exploration
Oct 4, 2012
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British tycoon Richard Branson, whose company is launching a space tourism programme, on Sunday hailed the late US astronaut Neil Armstrong as "an extraordinary individual".
Space Exploration
Aug 27, 2012
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Neil Armstrong's 1969 lunar landing marked a pinnacle of US technological achievement, defining what many saw as the American century, but the next person to set foot on the moon will likely be Chinese.
Space Exploration
Aug 27, 2012
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(AP)—When man first harnessed fire, no one recorded it. When the Wright Brothers showed man could fly, only a handful of people witnessed it. But when Neil Armstrong took that first small step on the moon in July 1969, ...
Space Exploration
Aug 27, 2012
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Norway on Monday inaugurated what it called the world's largest laboratory for capturing carbon dioxide, a leading strategy for fighting global warming.
Environment
May 8, 2012
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Chinese scientists have assembled the highest resolution map ever created of the entire Moon and unveiled a series of global Moon images on Monday, Feb. 6.
Space Exploration
Feb 8, 2012
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As China pushes to become a global space power, experts say its ambitions go well beyond a symbolic moon landing, to satellite observation and a global positioning system to rival that of the United States.
Space Exploration
Jan 5, 2012
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