Apollo 11 – 40th Anniversary

Celebrating a “Giant Leap”:

It took conservative President John F. Kennedy to see the potential of this great nation:

Endeavour Safely Home Minus a Toolkit

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) _

Space shuttle Endeavour and its seven astronauts safely returned to Earth on Sunday, taking a detour to sunny California after storms hit the main landing strip in Florida.

Endeavour touched down at 4:25 p.m. EST, wrapping up a 16-day trip that left the international space station freshly remodeled and capable of housing bigger crews.

The space shuttle Endeavour was commanded by a northeast Philly native, Christopher Ferguson.

NASA 50th Anniversary

50 Years today and still going strong! Here is to another 50 years!

NASA 50th Anniversary

Fly me to the Moon

 

The massive Saturn V rocket lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center with astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin at 9:32 a.m. EDT. Four days later, on July 20, Armstrong and Aldrin landed on the Moon’s surface while Collins orbited overhead in the Command Module. Armstrong and Aldrin gathered samples of lunar material and deployed scientific experiments that transmitted data about the lunar environment.  Text and Photo credit: NASA