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• Apollo Moon rocks reveal new secrets

  Collin SkocikJune 8th, 2014

  Forty-five years after the historic Apollo 11 landing of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the surface of the Moon, the priceless Moon rocks brought back by that legendary expedition are back in the news, revealing new evidence confirming the theory that the Moon was formed by a Mars-sized planetesimal slamming into the young molten […]

• Our Spaceflight Heritage: Gemini IV launches

  Heather SmithJune 3rd, 2014

  On this day in 1965, a  Titan II rocket carrying Gemini astronauts James McDivitt and Edward White launched from Complex 19 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The four day spaceflight was an attempt to overcome the flight of the Soviet Union’s Vostok 5. The highlight of the mission was the first spacewalk (EVA) by an American, […]

• Our Spaceflight Heritage: Pioneer, mapping the surface of Venus

  Heather SmithMay 20th, 2014

  On this day in 1978, the Pioneer Venus 1 spacecraft launched from the Kennedy Space Center aboard an Atlas-Centaur rocket.

• It’s complicated: Dawn spurs rewrite of Vesta’s story

  NASANovember 9th, 2013

  Just when scientists thought they had a tidy theory for how the giant asteroid Vesta formed, a new paper from NASA’s Dawn mission suggests the history is more complicated.