Tag: moon landing

LIVE 10:30 AM ET: NASA Announces Second Lunar Lander Contractor for the Artemis V Moon Mission

U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announces the second lunar lander contractor for the Artemis V Moon Mission at 10:30 a.m. ET on May 19. …


Apollo 16 Pilot Reflects Moonwalk on 50th Anniversary

On April 16th 1972 Apollo 16 blasted off from Cape Kennedy on a 12-day round trip to the moon. Leading the crew was John Young and his colleagues Tom Mattingly and Charles Duke. Apollo 16’s landing site was the central highlands of the moon, 19,000 feet higher than the flat Sea of Tranquility on which…