Celebrate the 40 Year Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Lunar Landing
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Ten years ago space shuttle Discovery astronauts released a spherical satellite studded with 878 tiny mirrors. Find out what else happened this month in exploration history.
At the dawn of the space age, artist Raymond Bruneau's spirit helped him overcome his physical limitations; his passion and hard-won talent led him to a career documenting NASA legends.
NASA's early spaceflight director knew the answer to this question. He named two of the agency's most celebrated programs -- Mercury and Apollo.
NASA welcomed artists as part of a program to give a different perspective to its technical and scientific operations and facilities.
At just 11 years old, Venetia Phair said Planet X should be named Pluto after the Roman god of the underworld.
Forty years ago Apollo 10 launched from Kennedy Space Center on a test mission. Read more historical facts in This Month in Exploration.
Eilene Galloway helped write the law that brought NASA into being.
06.26.09 - NASA has announced a schedule of events to commemorate the achievements of the Apollo program and the 40th anniversary of the first lunar landing
06.26.09 - On the eve of the 40th anniversary of the historic first moon landing, NASA is seeking ideas from the public, academia, and industry about how to analyze and catalog notes from spaceflight pioneer Wernher von Braun into an electronic, searchable database or other system.
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