moon landing

NASA administrator Bill Nelson said recently that it is important for the United States to return to the moon before China stakes its claim.

We have liftoff. The first U.S. lunar lander in over half a century left the earth’s grasp early Monday morning and set a course towards the moon.

Cape Canaveral is seeing final preparations put in place ahead of the planned launch Monday of a lander destined for the moon, a first in more than half a century since the Apollo project made history.

NASA believes a moon crater 33 feet in diameter, found near where Russia’s Luna-25 intended to land, was caused by the failed landing.

Russia’s unmanned robot lander, Luna-25, crashed after it had spun into uncontrolled orbit, the country’s space agency Roscosmos reported.

Sen. Maria Cantwell plans to attempt to use a bipartisan piece of legislation meant to counter the Chinese Communist Party’s technological advances to instead steer what could end up being a huge boon of a federal contract worth billions of dollars to a company operating in her home state owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos.

Her Majesty The Queen marked the 50th anniversary of the moon landings and the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings in a Christmas messsage which stressed reconciliation, and the beginning of great things from small steps.

ROME — Pope Francis gave a shout-out to the U.S. aerospace program on the 50th anniversary of the Apollo XI moon landing, calling the accomplishment a “great step for mankind.”

I’m no space nut. I was not one of those kids who built model rockets. But I do understand what the space program did for this country, not just for our national pride (which is important), but how the relentless push to achieve Kennedy’s radical challenge dramatically improved life here on Earth.

NEW YORK (AP) — In 1964, Stanley Kubrick, on the recommendation of the science-fiction author Arthur C. Clarke, bought a telescope.

The space program was not just about the guts and grit of astronauts with “the right stuff,” nor about the brilliance of the engineers who designed the spacecraft.  It was also about the financial and organizational ability of government leaders, corporate executives, and white- and blue-collar workers—all teaming up to get the job done. 

After its next planned astronaut moon landing, NASA’s Project Artemis intends to land astronauts on Mars, explained NASA Deputy Administrator James Morhard in a Friday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.

The New York Times and Washington Post used the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 space flight and moon landing to push a “political knife fight,” said Robert Charles, spokesperson for the Association of Mature American Citizens (AMAC), in a

China’s state-run Global Times on Tuesday quoted speculation by a Chinese aerospace expert that Beijing could put a man on the moon by 2035.

NASA chief Jim Bridenstine said the agency is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon mission with plans for a Mars landing.

The National China Space Administration marked a space exploration milestone on Thursday when it claimed to have landed a spacecraft equipped with a rover vehicle on what is commonly referred to as the dark side of the moon.

NASA has offered to show Golden State Warriors star Stephen curry proof that Americans visited the moon after he said he doubted it happened.

The 2019 Golden Globe nominees have been announced and “First Man,” the film that omitted the United States flag being planted on the surface of the moon, is not on the list of nominees for Best Motion Picture.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called press secretary Sarah Sanders a liar in a tweet to Sanders’ dad, former Gov. Mike Huckabee.

Ocasio-Cortez compared her election win to some of the U.S.’s most historic accomplishments, including NASA’s first manned moon landing.

The establishment entertainment media is circling the wagons to shield First Man from criticism following a massively underwhelming opening at the box office.

Damien Chazelle’s intergalactic thriller First Man hits theaters on Thursday. Its box office success may depend on how well viewers receive the movie’s internationalist theme.

Damien Chazelle, director of the upcoming movie First Man, defended the decision to not include a scene portraying the iconic moment the American flag is planted on the moon.

Jason Clarke, co-star in the upcoming movie First Man, dismissed controversy over the movie’s omission of the planting of the American flag from the moon landing, calling criticism “silly and naive.”

Iconic American astronaut Buzz Aldrin was photographed wearing a t-shirt of an astronaut standing next to the American flag amid backlash over the upcoming film First Man, which omits the planting of the U.S. flag on the Moon.

While the new movie First Man omits the planting of the American flag during the moon landing, former President Barack Obama called astronaut Neil Armstrong “among the greatest of American heroes.”

A new movie starring Canadian actor Ryan Gosling tells of the story of Neil Armstrong landing on the moon–but omits the American flag.

Andrew and Janice Aldrin hope to wrest their father’s legacy from him, claiming that the legendary astronaut is in “cognitive decline.”