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Back on April 12, 1981, the space shuttle roared to life for the first time. Columbia lifted off from Kennedy Space Center carrying two astronauts – a moonwalker, John Young, and a rookie, Bob Crippen.

Forty years ago, in 1983, the Space Shuttle Columbia flew its first international spaceflight, STS-9. The mission included—for the first time—the European Space Agency’s Spacelab pressurized module.

Astronaut Charlie Duke has held on to the shovel he used to collect over 200 pounds of moon rocks for 51 years.

Charlie Duke, Lunar Module Pilot of the Apollo 16 mission, talks about his astronaut training, his memories of the Moon and his thoughts about the future of US space flight.

The mission launched two years after NASA declared there would be no new lunar landing missions after Apollo 17 - so the crew launched knowing time was limited.

NASA release new footage from Apollo 16 mission Today marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 16 launch, the penultimate moon landing mission. The tenth crewed mission in the US’ Apollo Space program, run by NASA, was the second of Apollo’s “J missions”. The crew enjoyed an extended stay on the lunar surface, using the

Stunning images show the historic Apollo 16 mission 50 years after its launch to the moon. 

Apollo 16 blasted off April 16, 1972, on its mission to the moon; upon arrival, it became the fifth mission to successfully land on the moons surface

Article content Commander John Young and pilot Charles Duke, whose spacecraft would launch from Cape Canaveral less than a year later on April 16, 1972, teamed up with experts from Inco to study Sudbury’s impact crater and its unique geological structures. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. Its been 50 years since NASA’s Apollo 16 astronauts walked on Sudbury Back to video NASA hoped that the field training, which took place from July 7 to ...

‘Third man’ of the moon landing dies at 90 We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss By Richard Goldstein Save Normal text size MICHAEL COLLINS: 1930 - 2021 Michael Collins, who piloted the Apollo 11 spacecraft Columbia in orbit 97 kilometres above the moon while his crewmates, Neil Armstrong and Colonel Buzz Aldrin, became the first men to walk on the lunar surface, died on Wednesday at a hospice facility in Naples, Florida. He was 90. A...