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Alan Bean (1932-2018)

NASA has announced that Alan Bean has died. He was 86 years old. Astronaut Bean was the fourth human to walk on the Moon, reaching […]

John Young (1930-2018)

7 January LunaSociety 0

John Young, one of only twelve humans to have walked on the Moon, has died. A native of San Francisco, Calif., Astronaut Young was 87 […]

Stephen Hawking: Return To Moon Would “Elevate Humanity”

20 June LunaSociety 0

Speaking at the Starmus Festival in Trondheim, Norway, the physicist Stephen Hawking has called for space-faring nations to return astronauts to the Moon by 2020. […]

Gene Cernan - Aboard Apollo 17 LM (Photo)

Gene Cernan (1934-2017)

16 January LunaSociety 0

Gene Cernan, the last human (to date) to walk on the Moon, died on January 16. He was 82 years old. As a member of […]

John Glenn (1921-2016)

8 December LunaSociety 0

8 Dec 2016 — John Glenn, the first United States astronaut to orbit Earth, died today at the age of 95. Sen. Glenn made three […]

Quote For Today

10 August LunaSociety 0

“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.” […]

Luna Society Designates “Peace Crater” To Honor Nelson Mandela

18 July LunaSociety 0

New York USA — Luna Society International (LSI) has announced that a crater on Luna, Earth’s Moon, has been renamed to honor humanitarian and statesman Nelson […]