NASA Apollo 11 Moon Samples Fed To Cockroaches To Test Contamination
Scientists from NASA had a lot more leeway to conduct weird experiments 50 years ago, which included feeding moon dust to German cockroaches.
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Scientists from NASA had a lot more leeway to conduct weird experiments 50 years ago, which included feeding moon dust to German cockroaches.
The 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 will be honored with a brand new special coming to CBS.
The Apollo program, which first took man to the moon, took a tremendous amount of resources. Now, public-private partnerships are helping move closer to the next moon landing.
The Apollo 11 crew consisted of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, but there was a crucial "fourth crew member" on board: the Apollo Guidance Computer.
For years, NASA has been creating technology for space that ends up enhancing our everyday lives.
Fortunately, for Apollo 11 and all of mankind, a young, brilliant MIT software engineer saw a potentially mission-crippling error coming from nearly a million miles away.
Growing up in rural Georgia, Lewis Wooten felt light years away from the long, illustrious career he has built at NASA.
On July 20, 1969, Commander Neil Armstrong announced to NASA mission control, "the Eagle has landed."
Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin launched from Kennedy Space Center on July 16, 1969 with a mission to land on the moon.
During the Cold War, one battlefront between the USA and USSR was in the sky, as the nations fought to be first to space.
The Apollo Mission Control Center once buzzed with excitement as flight controllers communicated with the first astronauts to orbit the Earth, land on the moon and pilot shuttles. It's where dedicated experts oversaw operations for each mission, hour by hour.
This year marks the 45th anniversary of the 1969 landing on the moon and the realization of President Kennedy's dream.
General Electric is releasing a new sneaker that is "out of this world" and pays homage to boots worn by astronauts who first set foot on the moon 45 years ago.
Where were you when NASA astronauts landed on the moon? Buzz Aldrin wants to know and have social media users share their stories on social media.
Neil Armstrong, the Apollo 11 astronaut who became the first human being to set foot on another world, has died. He was 82.
