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Tecwyn Roberts was instrumental in the Apollo ... Nasa flight director and director of the Johnson Space Center, Christopher Kraft, was instrumental in establishing the agency's mission control ...

That same day, NASA managers met to select a formal target launch date. That meeting resulted in 16 July 1969 being chosen as Apollo 11’s launch day – a target the mission would meet.

Timed to the 50th anniversary of NASA’s celebrated Apollo 11 mission, APOLLO 11 ... and Michael Collins, the Mission Control team and millions of spectators around the world, during those momentous ...

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The spaceship joystick used by astronauts on the historic Apollo 11 mission is up for auction ... were all retained by NASA ...

NASA's Artemis 2 mission is returning astronauts to the moon for the first time since 1972. See live mission updates here.

Lessons from Donald Trump's first term could carry over into his second, which could mean more space contracting opportunities in Houston.

In 1969, Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon's surface—a momentous engineering and science feat marked ...

Oct. 11, 1968, Apollo 7 launched into space with NASA astronauts Wally Schirra ... and the crew was constantly arguing with mission control and each other. None of the Apollo 7 astronauts went ...