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 the Lunar surface in November 1969, four months after the initial landing of Apollo XI….
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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 years old. He was the only astronaut to fly into space with three of NASA’s…
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. “To leave Earth demands a concerted global approach,” Prof. Hawking told festival attendees. “Everyone should…
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 the Apollo 17 crew in December 1972 (along with Harrison Schmitt), Cernan became the last…
8 Dec 2016 — John Glenn, the first United States astronaut to orbit Earth, died today at the age of 95. Sen. Glenn made three orbits of Earth in his craft, Friendship 7, in 1962. He later served as a United…
“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.” United States President John Fitzgerald Kennedy 12 September 1962
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 Rolihlahla Mandela on the occasion of his 94th birthday. The crater, which is located in…
New York USA (2 November 2009 LT) — Luna Society International has announced that a crater on Luna, Earth’s Moon, has been renamed to honour the legendary actor and icon Shah Rukh Khan. The decision to designate the crater for…
This photomap shows the location of the John Lennon Peace Crater, in the Lacus Somniorum region of the Moon. For the full article about the John Lennon Peace Crater, please click here.
New York USA (9 October 2009 LT) — Luna Society International (LSI) has announced that a crater on Luna, Earth’s Moon, has been renamed to honor musician and peace activist John Lennon. The crater, which is located in the Moon’s…
