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NASA’s missing Apollo 11 tapes, how the original moon landing video disappeared and what may have happened to it

NASA spent years hunting for the original Apollo 11 slow scan and telemetry tapes that could have revealed a sharper, more complete record of humanity’s first steps on the Moon. What they found ...

The moon and sun figure big in the new year’s lineup of cosmic wonders

The moon and sun share top billing in 2026. Kicking off the year's cosmic wonders is the moon, drawing the first astronauts ...

On This Day, Dec. 21: Carlos the Jackal kills 3, takes hostages at OPEC meeting

On Dec. 21, 1975, the notorious terrorist Carlos the Jackal led a raid on a meeting of OPEC oil ministers in Vienna. German ...
Los Angeles Times

NASA loses contact with its Maven spacecraft orbiting Mars for the last decade

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA has lost contact with a spacecraft that has orbited Mars for more than a decade. Maven ...
UPI

On This Day: Apollo 17 lands on moon

Dec. 11 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1816, Indiana joined the United States as its 19th state. In 1936, Britain's King Edward VIII abdicated to marry American divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson.
Science Daily

New moonquake discovery could change NASA’s Moon plans

Scientists have discovered that moonquakes, not meteoroids, are responsible for shifting terrain near the Apollo 17 landing site. Their analysis points to a still-active fault that has been generating ...
The Business Journals

Government contractor Peraton to lay off 130 workers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min It's the second time since March ...
Yahoo

NASA's SpaceX Crew-11 Launches To Space Station, Booster Lands In Florida

Video shows SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launching the Crew-11 mission for NASA from Launch Complex-39 at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. Crew-11 is NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, ...
Ars Technica

Congress warned that NASA’s current plan for Artemis “cannot work”

In recent months, it has begun dawning on US lawmakers that, absent significant intervention, China will land humans on the Moon before the United States can return there with the Artemis Program. So ...
USA Today

Is NASA closing Goddard Space Flight Center? Here's what to know

Workers and lawmakers have raised concerns that the closures could delay multi-billion-dollar missions. NASA has stated the actions are part of a long-term master plan to upgrade the campus and will ...
BGR

NASA Just Took A Big Step Towards Artemis II's Mission To The Moon

The most exciting story in space flight this decade has been NASA's announcement of the Artemis program, which aims to land humans on the moon for the first time in over 50 years. The program has ...
Forbes

3 Year Old NASA Mission Control Security Bug Confirmed

Researchers reveal NASA vulnerability that went unfixed for three years. Security vulnerability researchers have exclusively revealed to me that a critical bug remained hidden in the software ...