Who doesn't know Neil Armstrong's famous quote: 'That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind'? Did you watch the moon landing live on your black-and-white TV on July 20, 1969? We briefly follow the earlier flights...
Fifty years ago, on Christmas Eve, we were surprised by the Apollo 8 crew's orbit around the moon. The photos taken under the name 'Earthrise' are iconic. Why was there a space race in the 60s...
The year 1986 is still known to many as the year of Halley's Comet. This comet has an orbital period of approximately 76 years and returns to the vicinity of our planet around July 2061. In March 1986...
American astronaut John Glenn passed away yesterday at the age of 95 in a hospital in Columbus. Glenn was the third American in space and the first American to orbit the Earth. After his career in the...
* " indicates required fields
