NASA Met Unprecedented Challenges Sending Craft to Pluto

NASA Met Unprecedented Challenges Sending Craft to Pluto

New Horizons beamed back the first-ever, close-up images and scientific observations of distant Pluto, its system of large and small moons, as well as the Kuiper Belt. A region of the solar system beyond the planets, the Kuiper Belt consists mainly of small planetary bodies.

Apollo 10 was Rehearsal for Upcoming Moon Landing

Apollo 10 was Rehearsal for Upcoming Moon Landing

NASA recently marked the 50th anniversary of Apollo 10, the mission that served as the “dress rehearsal” for the first lunar landing two months later. The crew descended to within 47,000 feet of the Moon ensuring all was working as designed prior to making the actual touchdown.

Apollo 5 Certified the Lunar Module Safe for Astronauts

Apollo 5 Certified the Lunar Module Safe for Astronauts

The year 1967 began with the tragic loss of the Apollo 1 crew, but ended with the successful launch of the first Saturn V rocket. NASA hoped to make it two successes in a row with the first unmanned flight of the lunar module, or LM, the spacecraft designed to land Americans on the Moon before the end of the decade.

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