Seated at her console in the firing room at Kennedy Space Centre, JoAnn Morgan felt the building shudder and the windows rattle as the Saturn
The lone spaceman
As Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took their first steps on the moon, a speech on file in the White House was ready for a
The father of rocket science
There was nothing out of the ordinary about Margrit von Braun’s father when he came home from work in the evenings, set his briefcase to
Moonshot 50th anniversary
Apollo 11: Buzz Aldrin’s young son worried about dad tripping on the moon Children of astronauts of Apollo landings reveal how they saw their parents
Space shaker
Seismic activity has been detected and recorded for the first time by instruments from Nasa’s InSight spacecraft stationed on the surface of Mars. The detection
SpaceX mishap
Dragon capsule explodes America’s human space programme suffered a setback when a new capsule designed to carry astronauts was destroyed in an explosion during a
