Today in History - November 19, 1969 - The Apollo 12 becomes the second successful manned lunar landing with astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean. The Apollo 12 mission almost failed at launch due to a leaking hydrogen tank; fortunately launch crew managed to change it before takeoff. The failure of the television camera was [...]

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Today in History - November 10, 1958 - NASA is offically established. Before the launch of Sputnik, the United States felt confident in its position on space technology. The modern liquid fueled rocket had been invented in America by Robert Goddard. In addition Wernher von Braun, the developer of the successful German V2 rocket was [...]

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Today in History - November 2, 2000 - first crew arrives at the International Space Station. This historic moment arrived when a capsule containing three astronauts - two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut - docked at the International Space Station. The International Space Station is a large, inhabited Earth satellite collaboratively built by 15 [...]

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Today in History - October 11, 1984 - Astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan, aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, becomes the first American woman to perform a space walk. Sullivan became an astronaut in 1979 and has been on three space flights: STS-41G (October 5-13, 1984), STS-31 (April 24-29, 1990) and STS-45 (March 24-April [...]

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Today in History - September 27, 2003 - The first European mission to the moon was launched aboard an Ariane-5 rocket carrying the SMART-1 exploration probe, along with two commercial satellites. It took 15 months to reach lunar orbit, covered over 60 million miles with only 13 gallons of fuel. After being captured by [...]

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