An incredible human drama in space exploration ended with the miraculous safe return of the three Apollo 13 astronauts on this day in history, April 17, 1970. “In Mission Control, pandemonium erupted,” NASA reports of the joy that overwhelmed the command center
Apollo is perhaps the most important and mysterious of all the ancient deities in Classical Greek and Roman mythology. He was the son of Zeus and Leto and was so skilled that he soon came to be known as the god of
You just knew this was coming. No doubt, you’ve heard about the staffing shortages in factories. And guess what? The solution seems to be robots. At Mercedes-Benz Manufacturing in Hungary, they’ve swapped out some of their human workers for humanoid robots right
The first US Moon mission since Apollo, carrying a piece of technology developed by UK scientists, has blasted off into space. The Peregrine Mission One (PM1) – built by US space company Astrobotic – is set to become the first private probe
The U.S.-crewed spaceflight to the moon on Dec. 7, 1972, was known as Apollo 17 — also known as the final flight of the Apollo program. This particular spaceflight included two historic astronauts: Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt. These Apollo 17 astronauts would
The Apollo program was the first to bring humans to the moon. Even though the program began in the early 1960s until 1972, with 12 astronauts walking the moon’s surface during this time frame, there are two missions in particular that usually
Fresh analysis of lunar dust brought back to Earth by Apollo astronauts has revealed that the Moon is some 40 million years older than was previously thought. Scientists believe that the Moon was formed roughly four billion years ago, when a body the size
A horrifying audio clip from inside the doomed Apollo 1 disaster has resurfaced more than 50 years after the event. Apollo 1 astronauts Virgil I. ‘Gus’ Grissom, Edward H. White, and Roger B. Chaffee lost their lives when a fire erupted in
Is it time? Are we living in the future? Are the robots taking over? No … but for Austin-based startup Apptronik, robots are being developed and are here to stay. Meet Apollo: Apptronik’s latest “general purpose humanoid robot” powered by artificial intelligence
A lawyer and veteran diver who nearly boarded the missing Titanic tourist submersible is drawing attention to a decade-old video showing the retrieval of Apollo 11 rocket engines from a depth greater than the wreckage of the Titanic. The video, shared by