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The longtime NASA flight director talks about the words he told his team after the fatal Apollo 1 accident, which is also the title of his new book about leadership.

A Black aviator and a female astronaut will join the first mission to the moon in 50 years, NASA announced Monday.

Cunningham piloted NASA's first manned Apollo mission in 1968.

During its historic flight to the Moon's orbit, the Artemis 1's Orion spacecraft broke Apollo 13's flight record.

It is interesting how you led into the question because next monday a week from tomorrow is the 60th anniversary of president kennedys speech at rice university in which we said we go to the moon and do other things not because its easy but because its hard. space is hard. we have seen the tragedies that came along with it where we have lost 17 souls. apollo 1, challenger and then columbia. so you just got to be careful when you put humans on the top of a rocket thats got autoof thatfire power a...

Apollo 1 Tragedy could have hobbled the US space program, but changes were made to ensure the safety of other missions.

San Antonian Ed White was the first American spacewalker 56 years ago today FacebookTwitterEmail 1of2 Ed White, the first American astronaut to walk in space, is seen during the Gemini 4 mission in 1965. NASAShow MoreShow Less 2of2 Astronaut Ed White, pilot for the Gemini-Titan 4 spaceflight, floats in space June 3, 1965. The San Antonian was the first American to walk in space. Show MoreShow Less Before Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon in 1969, a San Antonian was th...

Oregon Citys Lunar Ladies bring home second straight grand prize Robotics team from Gardiner Middle School, Oregon City High School earns NASA honors. Oregon Citys Lunar Ladies won Oregons grand-champion award in NASAs Mars challenge for the second year in a row in December. In the process, they were selected as national co-champions with three other teams from across the U.S., at the same time earning recognition as the only all-girl team to win the NASA challenge. As the only repeat...

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Enthusiasm of our president. there is a lot of little fake news that comes out every so often you know. [laughter] >> buzz makes a great point. he says that there was a war going on. there was a lot of division on the united states on that issue and many other issues but when neil armstrong and buzz aldrin and mike collins went to the moon and for that moment a real unified the nation.it unified the world and we truly believe that as we renew our commitment to lead in human space exploration wil...