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It is possibly one of the most significant images in the development of human culture. It is possibly one of the most significant images in the development of human culture.

"We came all this way to explore the Moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth." -Bill Anders, Apollo 8 astronaut From hundreds of miles up, the International Space Station speeds around the Earth, completing 18 orbits a day, looking down on us and returning some absolutely fabulous images.

How do you feel about being Canadian, British, Australian, Spanish, or American? Are you proud of your country? Do you like how the politics work, the decisions are made, the economy’s run, the problems and crises are handled?

Maj. Gen. Bill Anders was aboard the first manned mission to orbit the moon.

Are we as a species so mired in our current misery that we’ve metaphorically taken our...

“In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.” -Albert Camus This Sunday marks the Winter Solstice: the darkest, longest evening of the year for all the Earth's northern hemisphere denizens.

The Saturn V rocket powered the Apollo missions, changing the course of spaceflight forever. Here we explore this impressive rocket in more detail.

In 1968, one photograph changed the way a generation saw our world. Find out all about it, from Coggin!Hear Outdoors with Coggin Heeringa every Wednesday on Classical IPR.

"We came all this way to explore the moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth." -Bill Anders, Apollo 8 Astronaut This Earth Day, I think -- for anyone interested in space, astronomy, or the Universe -- gives us perhaps the best opportunity to look back on our planet as we understand it now, having traveled so far away from it. It was only, believe it or not, back in the 1940s that we first photographed our planet from high enough up to directly observe that, i...

Fifty years after it was brought back from the moon, a lunar rock has moved from the "Most Magical Place on Earth" to the "Show Me State." NASA presented the rock to The Space Museum in Missouri.