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The first phase of man's active exploration of the Moon came to an end with the Apollo 17 mission. Commander Eugene Cernan and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt, also a professional geologist, engaged in three moon walks for a total of 22 hours and 2 minutes.
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Cape Canaveral AFS, Fla. - The 45th Space Wing celebrated the 60th anniversary of the inaugural launch from its Eastern Range here today. This historic launch, which featured a Bumper 8 launch vehicle and was primarily composed of a captured V-2 rocket, occurred on July 24, 1950.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER - Three veteran astronauts joined an exclusive group of colleagues today as the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation inducted the space travelers into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame at Kennedy Space Center during gala ceremonies this weekend. The three new members, all retired astronauts, include veterans of Gemini, Apollo, space shuttle and the first space station crew member to be inducted into the Hall of Fame.
"At some point in the history of the world", editorialized The Washington Post in 1968, "someone may have read the first ten verses of the Book of Genesis under conditions that gave them greater meaning than they had on Christmas Eve. But it seems unlikely ... This Christmas will always be remembered as the lunar one."
COCOA BEACH, FL - The National Space Club Florida Committee paid tribute to a trio of aerospace veterans today during a ceremony in Cocoa Beach Florida. The lifetime achievement awards are presented every year to one or more people who have made significant contributions to America's space program in Florida at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station or Kennedy Space Center.
Thirty-three years ago, on July 15, 1975, the United States and Soviet Union set aside their Cold War differences and came together in history-making cooperation in space - the first international space mission. Two decades before the International Space Station made international cooperation in space commonplace, the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project captured the hopes of a world longing for peace between global superpowers and foreshadowed future partnerships. The docking of an American Apollo spacecraft and Soviet Soyuz marked a high point of detente at the peak of the Cold War. Visit our special ASTP section below with image galleries, documents, transcripts and other detailed background. Click SP-4209 to read NASA's historical account of the mission. All-access subscribers can watch NASA's official history film about ASTP.
2008 marks the 35th anniversary of the United States' first manned space station, the Skylab orbital laboratory. The project was almost a failure when the micrometeroid and thermal shield tore away from the Skylab during launch, which left the station critically underpowered and overheating. All-access subscribers can watch this NASA history film about Skylab's launch and rescue mission.
Four veteran space shuttle astronauts were inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame induction ceremony on Saturday. The ceremony took place at the Kennedy
Space Center Visitor Center in Florida. Joining the hall of fame this year are former astronauts John Blaha, Loren Shriver, Bryan O'Connor, NASA's chief of Safety and Mission Assurance at NASA Headquarters in Washington, and Bob Cabana, center
director of NASA's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi.
