On this day in aviation history, February 19, 1957, the Bell X-14 made its first flight. This aircraft, capable of vertical ...
Before Apollo astronauts set foot upon the moon, much remained unknown about the lunar surface. While most scientists ...
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander has made it to the moon. Blue Ghost fired its engines for four minutes and 15 seconds on Thursday (Feb. 13), injecting itself into an elliptical lunar orbit ...
Far from ordinary, it took a cutting-edge NASA design to safeguard these treasures during the Apollo missions Elana Scherr Apollo Lunar Sample Container No. 1008, triple-sealed, in which the ...
NASA’s PRIME-1 mission aims to analyze lunar ice and subsurface resources to support long-term Moon exploration.
What is the moon phase today? Today, Feb. 13, 2025, the moon is 15 days old and is in the Full Moon phase of its lunar cycle. It is 99% illuminated. Moon phases reveal the passage of time in the ...
The Earth as seen from Blue Ghost on its way to the moon.