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Capt. Jim Lovell of Apollo 8 and 13 walks the red carpet with his wife at the premier of the IMAX movie Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon presented by Tom Hanks, at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington on Sept. 21, 2005. (UPI/Photo Kevin Dietsch)
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The U.S. space program will see a retargeting under plans from President Barack Obama, although not all of the changes are being greeted warmly.
When Yuri Gagarin became the first human being to fly in space, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev boasted that he never found God there. But On Christmas Eve 1968, the three American astronauts of Apollo 8 did.
Former President George H.W. Bush entered the room from the right front of the stage, with former first lady Barbara Bush close behind. "Do I know you?" she said to me with a Cheshire cat grin as she walked by and sat within earshot and kitty-corner at the neighboring table. "We met in Prague some years ago, ma'am," I said. "Beautiful," she said. "We'll have to talk." And she sat down. It was the gala of the American Friends of the Czech Republic at Houston's venerable J.W. Marriott hotel last week.
Ace Atlanta Braves pitcher Mike Hampton suffered a right groin strain Friday.
Nearly 35 years after a near-disastrous space mission, Apollo 13 commander Jim Lovell says he has long-since learned to see the mission as a success -- the way it is depicted in Ron Howard's 1995 movie "Apollo 13," now coming out in a 10th anniversary spe
Thirty-six years ago this week, three astronauts and their families demonstrated the courage, boldness, and determination necessary for the human race to conquer the stars. The question is whether NASA and Congress today are willing to show as much braver
An international team of scientists has found a way to use floating clouds of gas in space as natural lenses to probe distant black holes and mysterious objects called quasars.
Every person who has gone into space has shared both the knowledge of and anxiety over the risks involved -- including the fact that more than a few other missions nearly resulted in disasters.
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