Liftoff of Apollo 8, December 21, 1968. Borman, Lovell Jr., and Anders performed 10 orbits of the Moon during the week-long mission.
Not all tech needs to be a distraction.
Katalyst's Link spacecraft is tumbling in orbit, which is a troubling sign for a rescue mission.
The heat could be rising from cooling lava flows beneath a layer of solidified crust.
Thankfully, the passenger was wearing his seatbelt.
It's been two years since Starliner left a crew stranded in space, but NASA is not giving up on the spacecraft just yet.
The SMILE mission will spend three years studying how our planet's magnetosphere interacts with solar weather.
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