We’ll ask that question a different way: Have you ever heard of Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt? Those are the astronauts that took the moonwalk 52 years ago to little fanfare on Apollo 17. It was ...
Alan Bean, a Navy test pilot and astronaut who walked on the moon and then spent two months aboard America's first space station before leaving NASA and becoming an accomplished artist, died Saturday.
When Apollo astronauts stumbled across shimmering orange beads on the moon, they had no idea they were gazing at ancient relics of violent volcanic activity. These glass spheres, tiny yet mesmerizing, ...