On 1968, NASA launched the seventh and final Surveyor spacecraft on a mission to explore the moon. Like its six predecessors, ...
Mosaic of surface images taken by Surveyor 1, pasted onto the inside of a hollow sphere to preserve the view geometry of the camera. Regolith soil and rocks are clearly visible. Today marks the 50 th ...
The infrared space telescope will search for potentially threatening near-Earth objects. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. After ...
WASHINGTON — NASA picked SpaceX for the launch of a space telescope dedicated to searching for near Earth objects. NASA announced Feb. 21 it awarded a task order through the NASA Launch Services II ...
NASA is studying a mission called NEOCam that would help the agency achieve a goal of discovering all near Earth objects at least 140 meters across. Credit: NASA/JPL WASHINGTON — NASA has approved for ...
On June 2, 1966, the United States reached a key milestone in its moon program — soft-landing a robotic craft on the lunar surface. The Surveyor 1 spacecraft (and the program as a whole) was key to ...
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