Look at these things. They’re shiny, sparkling.” Announcer: So after missing a moon landing in 1970, the Apollo 14 and 15 moon missions of 1971 put the United States that much closer to the ...

Commander of the Apollo 14 lunar landing mission. No space program from any other nation before or since the Apollo program has sent human beings beyond Earth’s orbit. All soviet cosmonauts ...

First author Mélanie Barboni holding a piece of lunar breccia prior to crushing and zircon extraction. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Jan. 11, 2017, issue of Science ...

The ninth Saturn V lifts off in January 1971 to start the Apollo 14 mission. The first people to ride the mighty booster were the Apollo 8 crew in December 1968. Recalled Bill Anders ...

The Apollo 14 moon landing was made possible by last-minute reprogramming of the lunar module's computers. The onboard computers were able to take advantage of integrated circuits. The computer I ...